¶ A Thousand Notable things, of sundry sorts. Whereof some are wonderful, some strange, some pleasant, divers necessary, a great sort profitable and many very precious.  

This Book bewrays that some had rather hide,  
which who so buys, their money is not lost:  
For many a thing therein, if truly tried,  
will gain much more, than twenty such will cost.  
And divers else great secrets will detect,  
and other more of rare or strange effect.  
It is not made to please some one degree,  
not, not, nor yet to bring a gain to few:  
For each thereby, how rich or poor they be,  
may reap much good, & mischiefs great eschew.  
The pains and travel hethertoo is mine:  
the gain and pleasure hence forth will be thine.   
❧ Imprinted at London by john Charlewood, for Hugh Spooner, dwelling in Lumbardstreete at the sign of the Cradle.   

❧ To the Right Honourable, virtuous and affable Lady Margaret Countess of Derby.  
AS I have taken some pains and travel (Right Honourable) to pleasure and profit many, by the publishing such rare, strange & excellent things, as many could have been content to hide and keep secret: Even so I have been careful, to dedicated the same to some worthy and meet parsonage, that would take the same thankfully, peruse the same willingly, and embrace it accordingly. And though I am acquainted with some, know diverse, and hear of many, to whom I might well and worthily present the same: yet amongst all other, I have chosen your good Ladyship of goodwill and zeal (pardon my rude rashness I beseech you) to have the first smell of these sweet, pleasant, strange, beautiful and precious Flowers, not growing in one Garden: but in sundry Soils, not quickly found, but long agathering, and not all of one property, but of diverse qualities. Whose Affabillitie hath allured me: whose Courtesy hath compelled me, and whose Fame hath enforced me, thus boldly or rather presumptuously to offer you the same. And though at the first it may seem too simple for you, yet I am certain, that divers things therein will delight you, some will also satisfy you, part thereof will peasure you, sundry from harms may shield you, plenty of them may preserve you, and a number besides needful for you. Beseeching your Honour not to respect the giver, but the Gift: not the Man, but the Matter: not the Skill, but the William. Which if you accept as willingly, as I offer faithfully: I shall think my long pains and travel therein fully recompensed. Thus ceasing herein any further to trouble your Honour, do commit you to the custody of him, whose wisdom first framed us, whose favour doth feed us, whose might doth maintain us, whose goodness doth guide us, and whose power doth protect us.  
Your Honourable L. most humble to command Thomas Lupton.   

The Preface of the Author to the Reader.  
IF some think no shame to displeasure many, for the pleasuring of a few (gentle Reader) than I need not blush nor fear to profit many by hurting of none: Which I hope I have done by the publishing of this my Book abroad, not penned without pain, nor drawn without diligence, not ended with ease. Wherein are such and so many notable, rare, pleasant, profitable and precious things (meaning one with an other) as never wer● yet set forth in any volume in our vulgar or English tongue, nay divers of of them were never hitherto printed, nor written, that ever I knew: but only that I writ them at such time as I heard them credibly reported. Thinking them such rare things, as was worthy to be registered. Mary I must confess, I have selected and picked a great sort out of Latin Writers, the Authors or Writers whereof, I have named most commonly at the end of the same. And some notable and precious things I gathered out of some old English written books, and some also not long since printed, unworthy to be hid, and great pity but they should be known: which purposesly I have placed herein, whereby I think verily, many will read them, hear them and have profit by them, that otherwise should never have known them. For many (I suppose) will buy this Book for things whereto they are affectioned, that never could or would have bought, or looked on the books, wherein all they are. So that by this means, they are like to win against their wills. Perhaps you will marvel, that I have not placed them in better order, and that things of like matter are not joined together. Truly there are so many of so diverse and sundry sorts and contrary effects, that it could not be altogether observed. And in my judgement through the strangeness and variety of matter, it will be more desirously and delightfully read: knowing we are made of such a mould, that delicate Daintiness delights us much: but we loath to be fed too long with one food: And that long wandering in strange, peasant and contrary places, will less weary us, then short travel in often trodden ground.  
This work might have been framed with finer Phrases (more delectable to some, though not so meet for many) but that it is better to profit a great sort, then to feed the fancies of a few, well assured, that the learned and eloquent can better perceive plain speeches: then the slenderly learned and common sort can understand eloquent Discourses. Therefore as I have written it to all indifferently, so wish I to manifest the meaning thereof accordingly: especially of such as are to be conceived. Not ignorant, that there are divierse and sundry Astrological Aphorisms, and some other practices besides in this book, that many both wise, learned and eloquent, cannot attain to the understanding thereof, (much less the common sort:) the meaning whereof I commit to the learned therein. But because the Planeticall power and effect in their hours, (whereof I have noted some marvelous matters in this work) should not be hid or unknown, I hope shortly there will be set forth such a Rule or Platform, that they may be thought simple witted, or slenderly learned, that thereby cannot find out and know quickly, what hour or time any planet doth reign or bear rule, and at what instant the same begins, and how long the force thereof doth last: which once known, the things that I have written herein concerning the same (well marked and observed) will not only avoid much mischief and harm: but also will procure great pleasure and profit. until the publishing whereof, I refer you to a little Book, entitled or called, A brief Treatise concerning many proper Tables etc. Wherein is the Computation of years with the reigns of the Kings of England: in which little Book, is a brief and exact Table and Rule, whereby any may find justly and truly, when and how long any Planet doth reign, especially such as be of good capacity and have pregnant wits. As for the duller sort, I think it is too brief and too busy.  
I have divided this into ten books, every one whereof, contains a hundredth of the entitled Notable things: which are in all a thousand. Wishing that they may be accepted as thankfully & willingly, as I have bestowed them friendly and freely. Being bold to affirm this much, that a great deal of gold cannot countervail this Gift: if but some twenty of the said thousand, be diligently marked, faithfully followed, and perfectly practised. And thus in few words, I bid you farewell.  
Thomas Lupton.   

❧ The first Book of Notable things.  
IN the first beginning hereof, a rare & strange matter shall appear, worthy to be marked, especially of such as loves or use Sage. A certain man being in a Garden with his Lover, did take (as he was walking) a few leaves of Sage, who rubbing his teeth and gums therewith, immediately fell down and died: whereupon his said Lover being examined how he died, she said: she knew nothing that he ailed, but that he rubbed his teeth with Sage: and she went with the judge and other into the same Garden & place, where the same thing happened: and then she took of the said Sage to show them how he did, and likewise rubbed her teeth and gums therewith, and presently she died also, to the great marvel of all them that stood by: whereupon the judge suspecting the cause of their deaths to be in the Sage, caused the said bed of Sage to be plucked and digged up, and to be burned, lest other might have the like harm thereby. And at the roots, or under the said Sage, there was a great Toad found, which had infected the same Sage with his venomous breath. Antonius' Myzaldus hath written of this marvelous matter. This may be a warning to such as rashly use to eat raw & unwashed Sage: Therefore it is good to plant Rew round about Sage, for Toads by no means will come nigh unto Rew, (as it is thought of some.)  
A Certain Poet by the report of Mizaldus, did wear leaden Soles under his shoes, lest the wind should overblow him, his body was so light and so little.  
IF any do myldlie or softly beat the plant or stalks of an herb called Mullen (some calls it Hedge taper) in the morning, when the flowers thereof begins to open, all the flowers by little and little will ●all and come to one: as though the plant were withered, or blasted, which the ignorant have thought to be done by Magical arts, or by some Enchantment, specially: if he that doth strike the same Mullen, doth seem to mumble some words whiles he doth it. Mizaldus.  
THe hooves of the forefeet of a Cow dried, and made in fine powder, increaseth milk in Nurses, if they eat it in their Pottage, or use it in their drink: and being cast on burning coals, the smoke thereof doth kill Myse, or at the lest doth drive them away. This Mizaldus writeth of the experiment of a certain Spaniarde.  
AQua vite being outwardly applied, doth help very well the Sinews and Muscles, and all other parts of the body tormented or pained of a cold cause, with his heating strength and swift penetration.  
IF one use to rub chapped or rough lips, with the sweat behind their ears, it will make them fine, smooth, and well culloured: a thing proved.  
WHen Infortunate Planets be in Angles, and the Sun or Moon applies unto them corporally, or by opposition, it signifies that the party then borne will be either croackbackt, or will halt, or it signifies the destruction or loss of some member, especially: if the Moon be with the Dragon's tail in these signs, Aries, Taurus, Cancer, Scorpius, or Capricornus, or in the beginning or end of the Sign. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
EArth worms fried with Goose grease, then streind, and a little thereof dropped warm into the deaf or pained ear, doth help the same: you must use it half a dozen times at the lest. This is true.  
Anthonius' Benevenius an excellent Phisytion, doth glory, that he with the water wherein Smiths did quench their hot and burning irons, giving the same often to drink, and with the eating of Cappares, did perfectly heal a Citizen of Florence, that had the grief and swelling of the Spleen seven years.  
Adders' tongue, wrapped in Virgin Wax, and put into the left ear of any Horse, it makes the Horse to fall down to the ground, as though he were dead: and when it is taken out of his ear, it doth not only waken him, or raise him, but also it makes him more lively or quick. Myzaldus' writeth this of the report of an English man.  
IF a water Snake be tied by the tail with a cord, & hanged up, and a vessel full of water set under the said Snake, after a certain time he will avoid out of his mouth a stone, which stone being taken out of the vessel, he drinks up all the water: let this stone be tied to the belly of them that have the dropsy, and the water will be exhausted or drunk up, and it fully and wholly helps the party that hath the said Dropsy. jacobus Hollerius.  
Often thunder doth turn and change Wines marvelously, but if the Wines be then in Cellars, being paved, and the walls of stone, they take less harm than in boarded Cellars: therefore it is good before such tempest or thunder, to lay a plate of iron with salt, or flint stones upon the said vessels with Wine. Levinius Lemnius by Mizaldus' report.  
THey will have the palsy or be so that they cannot move themselves, or will be given to tremble, in whose Nativities, the Moon is in an Angle with Saturn: Saturn then being under the beams of the Sun combust. Likewise if the sixth house, and the Lord thereof be infortunate of Saturn without the aspect of a good planet. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
MAke powder of unslackt Lime, and mix it with black Soap, and anoint any Men therewith, & the Men will fall away, and when the root is come out, anoint it with oil of Balm, & it will heal it perfectly.  
IF you will make wood of the colour of the wood Hebenus, especially such as be hard, as Box and Pear tree and such like, do as followeth: lay the wood you mean to colour in Allam water, so that it be covered with the laid water, and let it rest so three days: then lay the said wood against the hot Sun, or the fire, that it may only wax warm: then seeth the same wood in common oil, wherein put as much of Uytryol Roman, and Brimstone, as a Hazel nut, let it be dissolved, the longer you seeth it, the blacker the wood will be, so that you keep a measure therein, and it will be fair & elegant. Mizaldus had this of an Italian, a professor of many experiments.  
THe juice of Mullen leaves (of some called Hedgetaper, & of some Lungwoort,) put to any part that is bruised, or that hath had a struck, and the stamped leaves thereof: then put upon the same, and tied fast on with a cloth, if you let it lie so a whole day and night unremoved, it will heal it finely: yea, though it be a wound, but the sore must be first washed with white Wine a little warmed, and the juice and the leaves must be put to it, and you will marvel at the effect. Mizaldus had this of one that proved it, and I also have tried it to be excellent.  
IF any wood or iron be deep in the flesh, and cannot well be gotten out, dip a tent in the juice of Ualeryan, and put it into the wound or sore as deep as you can, and tie the herb Ualeryan stamped upon the same with some linen cloth, that it remove not away: and by this means, the wood, iron, or other thing whatsoever, will not only be drawn forth, but also the wound will be healed. Mizaldus writes it upon the report of an Italian. Alexis also affirms it.  
A Barren vine will bear grapes, if you cast old and sour urine thereon, or if you bury the lief of Wine at the roots thereof: but you must take heed that you cast not soot that is swept from chimneys, or lime, to the root of the said barren vine, which with their burning heat kyls the vine, and makes the same to wither before his time. Mizaldus.  
IN the morning if salt be holden in the mouth, under the tongue, until it melt or consume into water, and the teeth being rubbed therewith, it will preserve the teeth safe and sound: and it will keep them from rotting, and that they shall not be wormeaten: a thing often proved true.  
THe teeth of a Boar newly killed, are so hot, that if one than put them to heairs or bristles, they will burn them: which seems that the Boar is so inflamed with ire against them that kyls him, that he would be revenged on them with his tusks. Xenophon is the author, and Myzaldus the reporter thereof.  
THere is no presenter help to ease the torments of the Gout, both in the hands, and in the feet, than a young whelp, especially of one colour, if the same be put to the grief: Levinus Leminus. But the whelp aught to be cut out, or cloven in two parts thorough the mids of the back: and the one half with the inner side hot, to be laid unto the grieved place: and this I know to be an excellent thing.  
MAny stinking things do drive away the contagious and pestiferous air, as Castorum, Galbanum, Sagapenun, Brimstone, (all which are to be had at the Apothecaries) the smoke of burned Leather, and of Horns, and especially the smell of Gunpowder. For saith Lemnius, the whole City of Tornace enfected with the plague, the Rulars of the Tower or castle there, caused their Gons to be laid and leveled at the City charged with gunpowder, without pellets or shot: and then morning and evening in the twelve light, they shot of the laid peeses or Gons, so that through the stinking smell of the said smoke▪ and the great and violent noise of the Gons, the infectious and contagious air was quite put away, and the City delivered from the plague.  
COmmon Azure is made as followeth, take of Salt Armoniac, three ounces, of Uerdigreece, six ounces, let them be made in powder, and mix them with water of Tartar, so that it may be something thick, than put the same into a glass, and let it be well stopped that no air may get forth, & let it be laid in very hot Horsedung, for the space of eight days: and then when you take it out, you shall find it excellent Azure. Mizaldus.  
IT is to be marveled, that a Cock or Cockrell, which doth not fear a Serpent, or a Dragon, is so afraid of the shadow of a Gleade, when he is flying, that suddenly he seeks a place of refuge, and hides himself. Mizaldus.  
ANy kind of Aumber being sodden in the grease of a Sow that gives suck to young pygs, is not only thereby the clearer, but also much the better. Mizal.  
IF any carry upon him the seed of Sorrell, gathered of a boy, being a virgin, his sparme or nature shall not go from him, neither sleeping nor waking: therefore it is said to be good against any pollution in the night. Gilbertus Anglicus.  
A Certain Citizen of Milan, having Cautharides, that is to say: French Flees, applied to one of his knees, did piss above five ounces of blood, the like happened to one, to whose great toe of the foot, the same was applied. Bartholomeus Montegnanus, a notable Physician affirms this: therefore Cautharides is perilous to be taken both inward & outward.  
THe leaf of the greater Burr, borne or laid on the top of the head, doth draw the Matrix upward: But laid under the sole of the foot, it draweth downward, which is a notable and excellent remedy against the suffocations, falling, and displasing of the Matrix. This Mizaldus writeth.  
ALe sod till it be thick like a salve, helps all sores and aches applied thereto, marvelously: a thing often proved.  
ALl kind of Docks have this property, that what flesh or meat is sod therewith, though they be never so old, hard, or tough, they will become tender and meet to be eaten: hereupon it comes that they were so used in the old time, for that thereby the meat was more sooner concoct and easilier digested, and the womb more soluble. Mizaldus.  
WHen the ascendent and the Moon are both impedyte, and their Lords or Sygnifers safe, than the sickness is in the body and not in the mind. And if the Ascendent and the Moon be safe, and their Lords or sygnifiers impedite or hindered, than the sickness is in the mind, and not in the body. And if they all be impedyte, than it signifies both sickness of the body, & grief of mind. Likewise if an Infortunate planet behold the Ascendent & not the Moon: then the disease or grief is in the mind, & not in the body. And if contrary, than the disease is in the body, & not in the mind. But if an Infortunate planet behold them both, than the disease and grief is in them both. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
IF one suspect himself to be infect with the Pleurisy, let the party hold in his breath as long as he can, and then if he can let his breath go without coughing, he hath not the Pleurisy. If not, he hath the Pleurisy, or is in danger thereof.  
Whosoever hath the Quarteyn ague, shall not be troubled with the falling sickness, for if one have the falling sickness first, & after shall have the Quarteyn ague, the falling sickness will leave him. Hypocrates.  
ONe may colour ivory or any other bones with an excellent green colour as followeth, take strong water called Aqua Fortis, wherein dissolve as much copper as the said water is able: then let the bones that you would have culloured, lie in the same all night, and they will be like a Smaragdine colour. Mizaldus.  
IF Oil be powered upon wine or any other liquor, it makes that the same shall not wax musty, nor be corrupted. For it excludes or drives forth all air that may breed corruption, only with the outward air of the Oil, as with a certain covering. Notwithstanding, all styrpes or Plants, whereon Oil is powered or effused, do putrefy. As Plynie reports.  
THe Coals of a Byrch tree made in powder, & put into a wound or great sore, healeth it perfectly without any other thing. It was credibly told me that the Muscovites use it much, & esteems it greatly.  
A Robbyn read breast, finding the dead body of a Man or Woman, will cover the face of the same with Moss. And as some holds opinion, he will cover also the whole body.  
AN Italian, through the oft smelling of an herb called basil, had a Scorpion bred in his brain▪ which did not only a long time grieve him: but also at the last killed him. jacobus Hollerius a learned Physician, affirms it for truth. Take heed therefore ye smellers of basil.  
IF the Navel string of a child after it is cut, doth chance to touch the ground before it be burned: the same child will not be able to keep or hold his or her water, neither night nor day. A thing very true, and well known.  
A slain Mouse roasted, or made in powder, & drunk at one time, doth perfectly help such as can not hold or keep their water: especially, if it be used three days in this order. This is very true and often proved.  
IT was credibly reported to me for a very truth, that a certain Innkeeper in Ware died, which had a Dog that loved him so well, that certain days after he mourned and sought for his said Master without eating of any thing. And when he could not find his said Master, he laid himself among the hot coals in a chimney: who though he was pulled out of the fire, yet he went in again & burned himself to death. A rare & strange thing as hath been heard of. I think it is hard to find a servant so loving to his Lord, as this Dog was to his Master.  
assoon as a child is borne, (especially a boy) their ought to be great heed taken in the cutting of the Navel string: for the member of generation doth follow the proportion of the Navel string: and if it be tied to short in a Wench, it may be a hindrance to her in bringing forth her child. Therefore it is meet that Mydwives have a great regard therein. This is gathered out of Mathias Cornace, an excellent Physician.  
FOr the helping of the cods or Stones that be swollen or pained. The ancient learned did grave in a plate of copper, the figure of a Scorpion, in the hour of Saturn, the third face of Aquary then ascending or rising with Saturn, and for the Gout, the Seal of Pisces, and also for the helping or bettering of memory, they made a Ring of pure gold: wherein was closed a Diamond, under the conjunction of Saturn and jupiter in Aries. Hermes.  
EGidius Herthoge writeth a strange marvel of a woman which carried a dead child in her womb thirteen years, which was perceived of many, that handled her belly: but he writeth not what success she had therewith, for whiles he wrote the same, the woman was well, and did her business with her husband abroad and also at home.  
DYtany drunk with water or wine, doth cause a woman to be easily and speedily be delivered, yea, though the child be dead, or if it be turned contrary to a right course: also it brings forth the after burden, the like effect hath Peniryall, as some affirms. And it hath been proved as saith Myzaldus.  
Pigeons do so love the Kestrel, that if one enclose young Castrels in a pot, and stop and cover the same close, and shall hung them in four corners of the dovehouse, it will procure such a love to the pigeons of that place, that for the desire of them being so enclosed in the said Pots, they will never change that place, so much they love the Castrelles their friends after their death. Columella reports this as Mizaldus affirms.  
THe wort leaf laid on the crown of the head, draweth up the vulva, or the flap in the throat. M. Cato by the report of Mizaldus.  
IF a piece of fine gold, or the leaves of pure gold be put into the juice of Lemons, and taken out of it after it have lain therein a whole day, and the same juice then given to one that is sick of the plague, with a little Wine, and the powder of the root of Angelica, or of the decoction of the same root: it is marvel to be told what help it brings them, yea, though they be passed all hope, or thought past recovery. This Mizaldus writeth as proved.  
IF a Man be the first that a Woman meets after she comes out of the Church, when she is newly Churched, it signifies that her next child will be a boy. If she meet a Woman, than a wench is like to be her next child. This was credibly reported to me to be true. But praise it as it proves.  
A little bay Salt stamped small, mixed with the yolk of an egg and applied to a Felon, and so used diverse times, doth not only perfectly heal the same with speed: but also draws out all the pain out of the arm and ceases the swelling thereof, if any such be by the means of the same. This is perfectly proved.  
CHildren are not always like unto their Parents, as it may appear in Helides, which did beget a Daughter of an Ethiopian, which Daughter was not of the colour of her Mother: but after, the said Daughter had a Son, which was black and like to his grandmother. So Niceus the Poet did degenerate in colour from his Father and his Mother, and was like his grandfather being an Ethyopian. Which thing aught well to be considered of such that suspects their Wives when they bring forth children unlike to either of them: for it happens many times that the child is like to the Grandfather, or great Grandfather, and neither like the father nor mother. Mizaldus.  
A Toad stone (called Crapandina) touching any part be venomed, hurt or stung with Rat, Spider, Wasp, or any other venomous Beast, ceases the pain or swelling thereof. Lemnius.  
THe juice of Broome mixed with the oil of Radish or of Mustard, is a very safe remedy for the killing or destroying of lice.  
IF a Woman anoint often her Dugs or Paps with the juice of Succory, it will make them little, round and hard. For if they be hanging or flagging, it will draw them together, whereby they shall seem as the Dugs of a maid. Mizaldus.  
IF you shall enclose within a piece of thin Silk, Galbanum made sofe, and shall say it to the mouth of the Matrix all a night, (the head of that woman) having then no fowl nor stinking clothes upon it: but only covered with a Caule, and a clean or thine Keyrchyffe, without any kind of Odours) in the morning when the same are loosed from her head, if the crown of her head smell of Galbanum, it is a sure token that, that woman is apt to have children. Hippocrates.  
IF a stone called an Hematist, wherein a man is graven with bended knees, girded about with a Serpent, holding the Serpent's head in his right hand, and his tail in the left hand: be set in a gold ring with one leaf of an herb called Dragons put under the said stone, it doth make the bearer thereof safe from all poison and plague. Hollerius a notable Physician writeth it.  
THe fasting spittle of a whole and found person, doth quite take away all scuruines, sawsfleame, or readnes of the face, Ringwormes, Tetters, and all kind of Pustules or weals, by smearing or rubbing the infected place therewith. And likewise it clean puts away thereby all painful swellings by the means of any venomous thing. As of Hornets, Spiders, Byttles, Toads, and such like. Mizaldus.  
NEw cheese wrapped or folded in the dry leaves of Dragons, preserves the same from being mowly or from putrefying. Gallenus et Plin.  
IT is certainly and constantly affirmed that on midsummer Eve, that is the day before the Nativity of Saint john Baptist: there is found under the root of Mugwoort a coal, which preserves or keeps them safe from Plague, the Carbuncle, lightning, the Quarteyn ague, and from burning, that bears the same upon them. And Mizaldus, the writer hereof saith, that he doth hear that it is to be found the same day under the root of Planten. Which I know to be of a truth, for I have found them the same day under the root of Planten. Which is especially and chief to be found & had, at noon.  
THe dross, or that that is left after the pressing out of the Oil of linseed, is marvelous profitable for the feeding of Beasts, and if you shall let a handful or two thereof styepe a while in rain water, and therewith wash your hands, it will not only amend the spots or other deformity of the skin: but also you shall thereby perceive that the same and other members, if they be likewise washed therewith, will be made much fairer and more clean. Mizaldus saith that this is proved.  
ALl things that comes out of the earth will swim upon quicksilver, though they be heavy, except gold: and gold though never so little will sink into it and be swallowed thereof, and his colour will be turned into silver, which can not be reduced into the form of gold again, but with fire, nor can not be gotten out. And the quicksilver through the fire will be resolved in a smoke, with a most perilous smell. Mizaldus affirms this.  
Salted finely stamped and mixed with fasting spittle, laid on a fyllette (and applied certain times) to the place where superfluous heair is, doth cause that heair will grow their no more. A thing certainly proved. Pygions' dung doth work the like effect applied in such sort.  
AQua vite mixed with white Sugercandy finely powdered, so that it be not too thick thereof, but indifferent, and a spoonful thereof taken last at night for the space of three or four nights, doth presently help the cough, and hoarseness, & breaks the flame, marvelously. This is a tried thing. The like effect hath the powder of the root of Enulacampana mixed with the powder of Lyqueris and of white Sugar candy, if it be oftentimes used and eaten a spoonful at one time. Which I have often proved.  
THey are like to be gouty, or to have the Sciatica, or pains in the joints, in whose Nativity Saturn or Mars is in the sixth house, or in the twelfth house infortunating the Lord of the sixth house. Especially, if the sign of the sixth house be Capricorn, Aquari, or Pisces. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Whosoever have their feet smell strongly, if they put the scales of iron in their shoes, wherein they use to go, it takes clean away the evil smell thereof. Georg. Fabricius.  
YOu shall stay the bleeding of the nose, if you writ with the same blood in the forehead of the party that bleeds, these words following. Consummatum est. A thing proved with many. Mizaldus.  
IF boys or young men do use milk and exercise from the Cradle, they are thereby more higher or taller of body, and of more comely and beautiful stature. Mizaldus.  
THe powder of the tooth of a Bore mixed with the oil of linseed, doth presently cure the Squynancie, (which is a pain or swelling in the throat,) if the grieved place be touched with the end of a feather or pen, smeared with the same mixture. Mizald.  
THe outward part of the nettle, doth sting, prickle or burn, but the inward part (being the juice) anointed on the arters, doth mitigate & amend the feverly heat of the heart. Auicenna. et Arnold. de Villa nova.  
IF the corners of the eyes be anointed with an ointment of Saffern, if after the spittle doth saver thereof, the party is not barren: but apt to have children. Plynius.  
A Medicine made of a little honey and of a coal made of a vine, which never bore grapes. If the teeth be often rubbed therewith, doth so cleanse them, and makes them so white, that they will be judged to be of ivory. Mizaldus.  
THe blood of a white Hen smeared on a freckled, or a spotted face, and thereon suffered to dry, and after wiped away: doth clearly take away all spots from the same. Myzaldus had this of a certain Italyan.  
CAutharides wrapped in a spiders web, and hanged over one that hath the Quarteyn ague, it is said it cures or delyvers him or her thereof perfectly. Mizaldus.  
THe decoction of Hollyocke, with honey & butter being drunk, doth marvelously cease the pains of the colic, and of the back. I have proved this to be very excellent and true.  
A Plaster made of the powder of burned swallows and of their nest: doth help effectually the swelling of the throat or the Sqinancie.  
IF the pyse of a Bull that is all read, be made in powder, and a dram thereof (that is, the weight of lxxij bar●y corns) be given to a woman in a draft of wine: it will make her loathe to have to do with a man. (As Basis writeth.) And the same powder given in meet medicines to a man, doth contrary stir and make him have lust therein. Marcellus Empericus.  
IF Dogs chance to find a Cat's skin, they will rub and roll themselves upon it. And they will do so likewise where it is buried: they delight so much of the thing dead, which they hated alive. Cardanus.  
YOu shall know good & pure Azure, from sofisticate & naughty Azure. If some of it be laid upon a hot burning iron, & if then it will not be burned, neither any little stone is found therein, than it is pure & perfect. Mizaldus had this out of an old written book.  
THe white of an egg well & long beaten, mixed with quick lime: will join surely broken glasses, and broken earthen cups, and make them hold fast and surely together. But it would be the better if a little of very old cheese be well mixed therewith. This is very true, and proved.  
PLanten is judged by Hermes, to be the herb of Mars, and therefore good against the diseases and pains of the head: because that the sign Aries which is one of the houses of Mars, doth govern the head. And also Planten is very good against the grief & diseases of the stones, and the Ulcers of the bladder: and also Gonorrha passio, and Hemerods', because Scorpio the other house of Mars, doth rule that part of the body. Like judgement may be had of other herbs of the planets. Myzaldus.  
IF the right knee of a Bull be very strait tied, he cannot bull a Cow, although before his eyes she allure him thereto with her moowing. Mizaldus.  
IF a married man be let or hindered through Enchantment, Sorcery or Witchcraft, from the act of generation, let him make water through his marriage Ring, and he shallbe loosed from the same, and their doings shall have no further power in him. Guilel. Varignana, and Arnoldus de villa nova affirms the same.  
WHo use to rub their fingers between their toes of their feet when they go to bed, especially, when they smell most, and then to smell the same at their nose: it is a perfect remedy to put away the cramp. This was affirmed to me as a tried thing.  
A Candle burning, holden or put to a hole or place wherein a piece of Saltpetre is put, the said Candle will suddenly be blown out. And the same Candle immediately put to another place wherein is Brimstone, will be light and burn again, to the great marvel of them that stands by, if they be ignorant of the secret. Mizaldus. But the snuff of the Candle must not be clean out.  
THat writings shall not burn in the fire, take very strong Vinegar and the whites of eggs, and put them together, and put thereto quicksilver mixting and stirring the quicksilver well therein, and with the same mixture anoint Paper three times, and after every time, dry the same well: and after that write what you list on the same paper, & then cast the same writing into the fire, and you shall see it leap out of the fire without burning. This Mizaldus had out of an old book.  
CUt or break a white loaf in the mids when it comes hot out of the oven, and lay it to the ear of such as have any quick thing in their head, and it will bring it out, shifting it still with hot bread until all the quick things be come forth. This is proved to be true.  
THe little bone in the knee joint of the hinder leg of an Hare, doth presently help the cramp if you touch the grieved place therewith. Often proved.  
A little piece of the tongue of a Fox, being moistened and made soft in vinegar, (if it be dry) draweth out a thorn or any other thing deep in the flesh, if it be laid upon the place where it is. It is an excellent and true thing.  
WHen the sign of the sixth house is Libra, & Mars in the same house: it signifies grief and pains of the eyes. jatromathematica. Guat. riff.  
IVlius Vyator a Knight of Rome, (Plynie being the Author) who in his chyldhoode had the Dropsy, therefore then forbidden of the Physicians to use moist things: did so overcome Nature through continuance or long use, that all the time of his life after he lived without drinking of any thing.  
THe three corned stone of a carp, which is to be found in the hinder part of the head, nigh unto the neck, beaten small, and blown into the nose, doth stay the bleeding of the nose, by his binding faculty: which may be perceived by the tasting thereof. This hath been proved, and I know it to be true. Mizaldus also affirms it.  
THe head of a Cat that is all black, burned in a new pot, and fine ashes or powder made thereof, and some of the same, thrice every day, blown out of a quill into the eye that hath either Web or Pearl, or any other evil or grief in the same, is a most excellent help and remedy therefore. But if the party feel any burning in his or her eye (especially in the night) let three or four Oaken leaves styeped or moistened in water, be laid together upon the sore or grieved eye, and let the same be afterward turned and laid on again. The Author of this secret, said: that the sight is restored with this remedy, after a whole years blindness. This was told to Mizaldus.  
THat Salt will help Fecundity, or make women more apt to bring forth children. It may be an argument: because of the great number of mice and Rats that are wont to breed in Ships of the sea. And because women that are lovers of Salt & Salt-meates, are more prove, and have more children. Lemnius.  
Asses' that are much cumbered with Melancholy, do gladly eat Cytterache, or Scaleferne, that they may mend & help the diseases of the Spleen: Goldfinches, Eybright, and Uipers, Fennell, for the mending of their sight. So Goats by a certain property of Nature, do hate or can not abide man's spittle, nor they will eat any thing whereof man hath first tasted. But the nature of Lyserdes is contrary: for they lick up the same greedily. Plynius. Theophrast.  
ANnyball, made a passage for him & his Soldiers through the hard rocks of the Alpes to pass into Italy. For by heating & burning the stones with fire, and sprinkling vinegar thereon, he made them so soft, that they might fall easily in pieces, and that they might be sooner broken a sunder. Titus Livius. Plutarch, with other reports it.  
HEre follows an excellent remedy for all wounds and easy to be made. Take greek Pitch, Brimstone, and white Olybanum, which is a kind of Frankincense, of all a like quantity: let them be stamped and mixed with the whites of eggs, than (the wound being first washed, and the lips thereof well joined together) lay the same mixture on a linen cloth, and apply it to the wound, and tie the same fast on with clothes, or broad bands: and let it lie so certain days unremoved. A marvelous thing, and proved saith Mizaldus.  
White lilies will wax red, as Florentinus hath taught: if warily and diligently you open the clyfts of the roots, and fill the same with any red colour: and so then set the same in a fat dunged earth. Mizaldus.  
WOmen that use to lie & sleep on the right side, seldom or never bring forth any wenches. Rasis writes this.  
Whosoever is anointed for the Neopolytane disease (commonly called the French pocks) if he hold in his mouth a Ring of gold, or else an other piece of gold, and rolls the same about in his mouth with his tongue, the quicksilver that is in his body by the means of the ointment, is drawn of the said gold, and is so wrapped about the said Ring, or gold: that when the same is taken out of his mouth, it shall seem as though it were all Silver. And the same Ring or other gold will not be restored to his former brightness or colour, except it be put into the fire. Lemnius writeth this.  
Snails without their shells, or otherwise with their shells stamped & mixed sometimes with Chesleppe or Rennet, do draw out thorns or any other thing out of the flesh though never so deep, if they be applied to the place. And also being laid to the belly of them that have the Dropsy they suck out the water. But the same must not be loosed from the belly, until all the humour or water be sweated forth, or else the same plaster of Snails doth fall away of himself. jacob. Hollerius.  
FINIS. Lib. 1.   

❧ The second Book of Notable things.  
WHen the Moon is in conjunction with the Sun, or in any evil aspect with him, and in any Angle, and beholden of evil planets with an evil aspect, in any bodies Nativity. It signifies that the Child that is then borne, shall have inseparable diseases, or griefs in the eyes. jatromath. Guat. H. riff. Argent.  
IT is manifest by experience that the seventh Male Child by just order (never a Girl or Wench being borne between) doth heal only with touching through a natural gift, the King's Evil: which is a special gift of God given to Kings or Queens. As daily experience doth witness. Mizaldus.  
ERastratus a Physician, did perceive by the feeling of the pulse, that Antiochus the son of king Seleucus, did so pine for the love of Stratonices, his mother in law, that unless he might have his desire, with the good will or pardon of his Father, he would die. These are Authors thereof. Valerius Maximus, and Galenus. Which also by the like, did know that justa the Wife of Boetius, a councillor of Rome, did languish for the love of one Pilas dancing in the Theatre. Mizaldus.  
CElendine with the heart of a Wont, or a Mould-warpe, laid under the head of one that is grievously sick, if he be in danger of death. Immediately he will cry with a loud voice, or sing: if not, he will weep. Mizaldus.  
THe juice of Henbane, mixed with the blood of a Hare, and sod within the skin of a Hare: it is said that all the Hares will gather together which be within that tract where it is buried. As the Matrix of a Bitch will gather Dogs together. This was affirmed for truth to Mizaldus.  
MAny women with child of the sudden or unlooked for, meeting, or sudden seeing of an Hare, or for the desire or longing to eat of the same: do bring forth children with a cloven overlip, and forkedwyse, called a Hare lip. Daily experience confyrmes it. Mizaldus.  
THat disease or sickness will be great which takes one when the Moon is in that sign, wherein an evil Planet was in the time of his birth, either in a quarryle or opposite aspect: and if an evil planet doth them behold her, it will be very perilous. But then if the Moon be in a place where a good Planet was in the time of the birth, that sickness will be without any danger. Hermes. Trismegistus. Ptolomeus, & Claudius Galenus. Authors.  
AN Egg laid in strong Vinegar, three days or a little longer: it makes the shell thereof so tender and soft, that one may draw it through a Ring. Cast the same into a warm water, and let it lie therein, and it will be hard again. Mizaldus.  
A Flynt stone lying in Vinegar the space of seven days: may be resolved into powder by rubbing between the fingers. Therefore it is no marvel though Annybal did dissolve the stones of the Alpes with vinegar. Mizaldus.  
WAter wherein the leaves and seeds of H●mpe is sodden: being cast or sprinkled on the earth, will make the worms to come out of the ground: if any be there. Mizaldus.  
THe oil of Tartar, made of the lose of excellent Wine, doth take the spots from iron, the iron being clens●d from all rustiness, and doth make him of an excellent brightness: if the iron be rubbed therewith. Mizaldus.  
THe root o● Henbane stamped and applied warm to the pain of the Gout of the feet or Sciatica. It is said, that (it helps marvelously) because this herb belongs to jupiter, which is only Lord of sagittary, which governs the huckle bone. And of Pisces which challengeth the feet. Mizaldus had this out of an old book of secreetes.  
IF some drops of Aqua vite, be mixed with writing ink, the same ink will never be frozen. Proved.  
Whosoever is apt to any thing: hath certainly the Star or Planet, by whom that thing is signified very strong in his birth. Myzaldus. As thus for example (I may say by the way.) He that is apt to Martial feats, or Warlike affairs, hath undoubtedly Mars strong in his birth. And whosoever is apt or inclined to planting, drawing, writing, syphering, or to the science of Arithmetic, or to any witty or notable inventions, without all doubt hath Mercury very strong in his birth. Which by daily proof is infallible. And so you may know of the rest.  
THe wood of the Sicamore tree, is never dry in the air, or high ground, and in the banks of rivers, and where waters run over, it dries very quickly. Mizaldus.  
THe soles of the feet anointed with the fat of a Dormouse, doth procure sleep. As Actius doth say.  
THey will have pains in the stomach, or be weak stomached, in whose Nativities, Mars and Saturn are in the sixth house, or in the twelfth house, infortunating the Moon, or the Lord of the Ascendent. Especially if the sign of the sixth house be Cancer. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
THis following is an excellent remedy for them that be broken bellied, or brusten. Take nine red Snails, and put them between two tile stones, so that they slide not away, & dry them in an Oven, so that you make them in powder: then give to the diseased the powder of one of them in white wine every other day in the morning, till all be done, which will be in xviii days. The party must take it fasting, and neither eat nor drink of two hours after. And if the disease be so long rooted, that these nine times will not suffice: then begin immediately again with other nine Snails, & do as before is declared in all points. I had this out of an old Book wherein was many excellent Secrets, & I heard one affirm it to be a true and tried thing.  
Hemp seed given to Hens in winter, will make them say eggs a pace. Cardanus.  
THe oil of Tartarus, doth take away clean all spots, freckles, and filthy weals of the face, chin, or forehead, with his cleansing strength. This is well proved.  
WHen thou wilt drive away Flies from any place, that there shall none be seen there again, make the image of a Fly in the stone of a Ring: or as my book saith Mizaldus, in a plate of brass or copper, or of Tyn, make the image of a Fly, of a Spider, & of a Serpent, the second face of Pisces then ascending. And whiles you are making or graving of them, say: This is the Image which doth clean rid all Flies for ever. Then bury the same in the mids of the house, or hung it in any place of the house, (but if thou hast four such plates, and bury or hung them in four corners of the house, or hide them within the walls, that no body take them away, it were far better.) But this laying of them must be when the first face of Taurus doth ascend. And so no Fly will come in there, nor tarry there. Ptolemy saith, that he saw the trial hereof in the house of King Adebarus: who was very wise, and was marvelous expert in natural Magic, in whose Palace or Place, there was neither Fly, nor any other hurting worm. and that I might search it out, saith he: I brought in thither live Flies, which presently died. Mizaldus.  
Six or seven whites of Eggs, put into troubled or thick Wine, and the same being well moved or stirred with a stick: makes the Wine ●ayre and clear.  
IT is dangerous to strike: especially, to cut that part of the body, when the Moon is in that sign that governs the same, as daily experience showeth by many, and a thing every where feared & doubted, through the dangers that follows thereof. And it was credibly told me that one that was by chance pricked in the finger with a thorn: the Moon then in Gemini, died without any remedy thereof. And I knew a tall man and a stout, that in fight had a little cut with a sword under the ankle: (as it seemed to me, seeing the same, a thing of small harm:) yet notwithstanding, he died within half an hour after the stroke was given. This may be verified by many examples. So that by this, and by many other things it is manifest that the Moon and other Celestial bodies, have marvelous power in our earthly bodies. As in this book and in divers and many places, the same is manifest.  
IF a Rat, Mouse, or weasel, or any other thing, suddenly leap or fall on the body of a Woman with child: or else any Cherries, or a cluster of Grapes, or other thing whatsoever chance to fall or it any part of her body: by and by it haps that the child is marked with some special note or mark on that part, whereon they did fall or it: (except happily the woman on whose body the same did chance,) wipe with her hand suddenly the part or member therewith touched, and lay her said hand on some other part further of. Lemnius. There are few women but knows this to be true, & many have found it to true. As two or three strange examples in this book doth show most wonderfully.  
BUrning water called Aqua vite is of marvelous force, in preserving of things and keeping them from putrefying. For flesh or meats whatsoever moistened therewith, will be safe from corruption and worms.  
IF young Beasts eat of the leaves of an Ywe tree, they die. But if they that chaws the cud do eat thereof, they feel no harm. This is the opinion of Theophrastus. But Plynie doth ascribe it to the Ash tree. But the likelihood and nearness of the words might deceive him. For the Ash tree in the Greek tongue is, Milean, and the Ywe tree is Milon. Mizaldus.  
A marvelous matter, and a thing worthy to be remembered, is written by Aelinus: that a great mighty Wolf did come to a school, and did snatch the writing Tables out of the hands of a Boy called Gelon of Syracuse. Whereat the said child Gelon rising from his seat, did diligently and sharply without any fear follow the said wild Beast earnestly to pluck the said Tables from his mouth. But after that Gelon was out of the school, the same with a sudden ruin fell upon the rest of the schoollers, & killed, and oppressed with the Schoolmaster, above a hundredth Boys. Only Gelon by God's providence of all his fellows remaining alive. And because he was not killed of the Wolf, but rather reserved: it cannot be without great admiration, partly by foreshowing his kingdom and rule, and partly that he was preserved from so imminent a peril.  
Whosoever will preserve chestnuts, and keep them safe and sound▪ let them say & mix them with Walnuts: for they will drink up and consume such humours whereby they corrupt. And they will not suffer them to wax mowly. Mizaldus.  
Knotgrass is thought to be the herb of the Sun, whereupon it helps greatly all the diseases of the heart, and the mouth of the stomach. Whereof Leo, the Lion is governor, which is the house of the Sun. And it is very good against the great griefs of the back, the Stone and the Colic, by drinking of it, or by infection. It was affirmed to Mizaldus, that it was found true by experience.  
AN herb called Houndstonge, joined with the Matrix of a bitch, being so tied to the neck of a Dog, that he can not get it away: you shall see him turn about so long, that he will fall down, and seem to be half dead. Albertus.  
WHen the Scythians were constrained to sustain hunger for any certain matter or urgent cause: they girded in their bellies with broad bands, that no emptiness left in their belly or guts, their hunger might the less grieve them. For through the hard binding in of the belly, hunger is the more tolerable. Whereupon it is seen that they that eats much, do lose or unbutton their doublets, and lose their garters. Phavorinus.  
THe Elephant seeing a Ram, is by & by tame, and leaves his fierceness. With which policy the romans caused the Elephants of King Pyrrhus to return and go backward. And so the romans obtained a worthy victory. Mizaldus.  
THe paring of an Apple cut something thick, the inside whereof laid to hot burning or running eyes, at night when the party goes to bed, & tide or bound to the same: doth help the same very speedily, and contrary to expectation. An excellent secret.  
A Certain Priest having a loving Dog, was killed for his money, and thrown among bushes or some other privy place. Which Dog so mourned for his said Master, that he would not departed from him, but howled: so that the dead body was found. Which dead body was brought afore certain men to be viewed, to which place divers people resorted. amongst whom the murderer would needs show himself (lamenting outwardly the matter, with the rest of the standers by, as though he had been as guiltless as the best,) whom when the said Dog perceived: he barked and did run at him fiercely, and by no means would leave his barking, howling and running at him. And following after him, and at none other: showing (in his manner) that, that was he that killed his Master. Whereupon being suspected, he was examined, who forthwith confessed his wicked fact: and therefore was executed. Saint Austin affirms this (as I do remember.)  
IF both the lights, (that is to say, the Sun and the Moon) be in the sixth house Infortunate, they that be then borne, without doubt will be blind. And if but one of them be there and Infortunate: then the child will be blind but of one eye. And likewise it will be, if either the said lights be Lord of the sixth house Infortunate. And universally, their eyes can not escape great hurt, in whose Nativity the said lights are impedite. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
THis following will presently ease the pains of the gout. Frye out the grease of shoemakers spetches, or pieces of Leather: and lay some of it upon a brown paper, warming it a little at the fire: then apply the same to the grief, and it will take away the pains in one night. I had this of them that have proved it often to be true.  
IF Sheep chance to eat of an herb called Knotgrass, it will make their bellies swell: and they will avoid out of their mouths a thin stinking froth: therefore they must be let blood under the tail next to the buttock. Columella.  
THere is many do the things in their sleep, that they that be awake use to do. For they will walk about the house and chamber, and will go to other folks beds, and dare do any thing without fear. Whereof there are many daily examples. But one among all the rest (which was credibly told me) was marvelous strange, and almost incredible. Which was: that two men lying in bed together, the one of them being fast a sleep, took the keys and unlocked the doors and the gate of the house, and so took his Bow & Arrows, and went to a wood or chase above a mile from thence, and killed a Buck or a Do, and then did cover and hide the same in the wood: and then came home again unlocking and locking the gates and doors again, and laid the keys where he had them, and so went to bed. The other man that lay with him being awake, followed him and did see all that he did. But he would not go to bed, but stayed a while in another place, to see the end thereof. And assoon as the other was in his bed, he took his dagger, stabbing and thrusting therewith in the bed, where the other man did lie, and by and by after awaking, said: alas what have I done, I have killed him. The other answered, nay, I am not killed yet, thanks be to God. Then said he: for I was a dreamt that I killed a Buck in such a place, & that thou did see me where I did kill him, and hid him: and thinking thou would bewray me, I thought to kill thee. But I am glad said he, that it was but a dream. Then the other said: if it were a Dream, thy Dream is then true. For thou hast performed all the Dream: except the killing of me. Which he would not believe until the next day: when, he that lay with him, carried him to the place where he himself told that he did hide the said Buck. Where in deed they found the Buck killed, as he before told in his Dream. A marvelous matter if it were true.  
THe greeks and romans did keep snow till Summer in caves of the earth, covered with Oaken bows or chaff. Which made Saint Austin say: who gave chaff such a cold strength to keep and preserve snow, or such a hot strength, to heat and rypen unripe Apples.  
WIne will be pleasant in taste and in savour, and colour: it will much please thee if an Orange, or a Lemon (sticked round about with cloves) be hanged within the vessel that it touch not the Wine. And so the Wine will be preserved from foystines and evil savour. Mizaldus.  
THey will have pains or diseases in their Liver, in whose Nativity jupiter is Lord of the sixth house, being evil aspected of an Infortunate planet. jatromath.  
IF shell Snails be roasted and dried at the fire, or in an Oven, and made in powder: and a spoonful thereof drunk in Ale at one time, and so taken nine or ten days together: it doth perfectly help and cure the black jaundice. Proved.  
IF you stamp earth worms, & then strain them through a cloth, and then put to the same as much of the juice of Radish roots, and between the beating or framing of Swords, Knives, or Daggers, when they be hot: you do quench them twice or thrice therein, the same shall cut iron after, as though it were lead. This Mizaldus had of a Physician that was cunning in that art.  
STinking and corrupt Wine will be marueylouslie mended, if according to the bygnes of the vessel, a sufficient quantity of clean Wheat in a bag, be hanged in the said vessel, and after be taken out of the same. For whatsoever is unclean or nought in the Wine, the Wheat will draw the same to it, and so will leave the Wine pure and clear. Pistorius.  
THe uttermost or last joint of the tail of a young whelp, after he is forty days old, being writhen of: the same Dog will never be mad. Besides that his tail will be thereby of a comely length. Mizaldus.  
IF you bore holes in bay berries, & put into every hole the seeds of Artychokes, and wrap them with dung, and so put them into the earth, thou shalt have so sweet & pleasant smelling Artychokes: that nothing can be of a more sweet & pleasant smell. Varro. The same will happen, if you do styepe seeds three days in sweet smelling water. Mizaldus.  
BUtter, Aqua vitie, and Beast gall, of each a like quantity mixed together. And any ache or stitch anointed therewith something hot, every morning and evening, for seven or eight days: doth perfectly help the same. Proved.  
ALl Wheat that is sown in continual moist ground, after the third sowing, will become the purest Wheat that makes the synest & best bread that can be made. Columella.  
GAlene saith, that he knew certain men in his time▪ that gave the powder of man's bones burned, to them that had the falling sickness: they not knowing of it, lest their mind should stand against the medicine, and many was cured with the same. Gesuerus hath proved it with the skull.  
IF the little Nerve under a Whelps tongue (commonly called the greedy worm) be taken away, it keeps the same sa●e after from being mad: and he will not be given so much to barking after. And also it is thought they will not be given to greediness after.  
IF you prick the head of a Leek, with a reed or a stick sharped, and put within the same, the seeds of rape, or of Cucumbers, the said Leeks head will so swell: that it will seem monstrous.  
AEtites, called the eagle's stone, tied to the left arm or side: it brings this benefit to Women with child, that they shall not be delivered before their time. Besides that, it brings love between the man and the wife. And if a woman have a painful travail in the birth of her child, this Stone tied to her thigh, brings an easy & light birth: but you must take it away quickly after the birth. The same Stone as the Chaldeans reports, if it be mixed with meats envenomed: it forbids or lets that the same meat be swallowed down. Euax. et Alb.  
THe people of Astomores (as Plynie reports) have no mouth: and are clad with a woolly moss growing in India, and lives only with smelling of Odours at their nose, of Roots▪ and of Flowers, and of Apples that grows in the woods: which they carry with them in their long journeys to sustain and nourish them withal, lest they should want whereof to smell.  
THe powder of Stone pitch, drunk in small drink once every day, for the space of four or five days: is a very good remedy for them that are bruised through falling, or otherways.  
WHen the Sun in the day time, and the Moon in the night, in an Nativity is corporally convinced with any evil Planet: the child that is then borne will be blind. And if this be in an Angle, or if the Lord of the Ascendent be with them, than they will be blind in their youth. And if the said light so Infortunate be not in an Angle, nor with the Lord of the Ascendent: then such will be blind in their age. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
THree Nails made in the vigyll of the Nativity of Saint john Baptist, called Midsummer Eve, and driven in so deep that they can not be seen, in the place where the party doth fall that hath the Falling sickness, and naming the said parties name while it is a doing: doth drive away the disease quite. Which Mizaldus writeth of the report of one that proved it.  
IF you will presently turn Wine into Vinegar, cast therein salt with pepper, mixed with sour leaven, and it will perform it quickly. Mizaldus.  
THe root of Uaruayn hanged at the neck of such as have the King's Evil: it brings a marvelous and an unhoped help. Which is Venus herb, that hath power of the neck: because of Taurus the Bull, being her house. Mizaldus.  
Whosoever falls sick in that year wherein there is an Eclipse, and the Signifiers of the said Eclipse be in the Ascendent of the Nativity of him that so falls sick, or in the Ascendent of his Revolution, or in the place of his Hilech, or of the Signifyer of his Life. That disease then taken, will be very perilous and deathly. Mizaldus' cum alijs.  
GEese, Ducks, and other water fowls, helps their diseases with wall Sage, Hens with Withwind, Geese with Haryth, the Cranes with Sqynant, the Panther with Man's dung, the Boors with ivy, the Hearts with Arthechokes, the Dogs with Grass. Also Plynie saith: that the linell of Crabs will kill Bees, especially: if one seeth them nigh unto their Hives. For they abhor stinking smells. Therefore they follow them fiercely that smells of stinking ointments.  
IF children eat Rasins fasting, that have worms without any other meat, it will kill and avoid the worms. For as bitter things are noisome unto them: even so is sweet things. For with the oft eating of sweet things, it makes them to swell and burst.  
IF the tender horns of young Bucks, that is covered with a thine heayrie skin, be cut in pieces, and then put into a new pot well covered, and set in an oven or other place that is hot: whereby the same may be made in powder, and some of the same given with Pepper & Myrrh, to them that are tormented with the Colic, in good wine: it will help them marvelously of the same disease. Scribonius Largus.  
PElletory of the Wall stamped, and so laid to the cods, & under the Navel. And so used four or five times, helps the colic, and the pains of the bladder and cods. A thing often proved.  
THey will be diseased in the Spleen, in whose Nativity the Moon is Lady of the sixth house, being Infortunate of Saturn. Or if the Lord of the Ascendent be Infortunate in the seventh house: or if Saturn be Lord of the Ascendent, and Infortunate of Mars: or if Saturn be Infortunate by any means under the earth. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Gourds, Pears, Apples, Quinses, Cytrins, Wardens, or such like fruit: whereon you desire to have some pretty, or other form on the outside. If when they have cast the flowers, & begins to have any form or proportion: enclose them within some wood, or other thing of stone, or of any other thing, & within of what form you list: and tie the same fast about the said fruit. But make not the said instrument on the inside bigger, than the fruit will be within it. And when you think that the fruit is full ripe: take the same with the fruit in it from the tree, and the fruit will be of that fashion & form as you desire. Mizaldus.  
IT is said that Alphons King of Castille, gave to certain Mathematicians a hundredth thousand pieces of gold: which were called or sent for out of Araby, Africa, and other places for the making & framing of the Astronomical Tables (which shows the continual course and place of the Stars & Planets) which work is to be had every where through his great liberality, to his perpetual praise.  
GAlbanum made softer, and spread upon a linen cloth, and so applied & laid upon a plague sore: if the disease be curable, it will so stick and cleave to the same, that it cannot be plucked away: unless it bring away the root of the sore with it. But if the disease be incurable, it will cleave to it. Arnold. de villa nova.  
THe little sparrow hath a strength & virtue worthy of great marvel. For if the Sparrow be conduit or well powdered with salt, and eaten raw, it doth expel and drive forth the stone, by the urine, and cures the disease so perfectly: that the same shall never breed again. The sparrows may be condite very well, if when their feathers be plucked off: that then they be powdered & covered well with salt, and so dried & eaten: if you have many sparrows, they may be sodden as other birds be. And also they may be burned in a pot close covered with the feathers & all: and the powder of one of them so burned with a little pepper & Cinnamon, may be given to them that are grieved with the stone. There be which do condite them (their feathers being plucked off a live) with Salt, which is better. Some do eat them roasted whole, so that they cast nothing away of them, but their feathers. They that will know more hereof: let them take counsel of Actius, and Paulus Egeneta. Mizaldus.  
IF any will make their hands white, let them mix the dung of sparrows in warm water, and wash them therewith: or let them seethe the roots of nettles in that water, and therewith wash their hands. Proved.  
AElianus writeth, that the quills or pens of an Eagle, mixed with the quills or pens of other fowls or birds, doth consume or waste them with their odour, smell or air.  
THe roots of lilies sodden in water, doth take away the redness of the face: if certain mornings and evenings, the same be washed and rubbed therewith. This hath been often proved.  
Beasts that be stubborn or wild, and also Horses that will wynce or kick, or otherwise be unruly, will suffer themselves to be dressed, or else to be shod: If you put into one of their ears a little round flint stone, and then hold the ear hard with your hand, and it will make them quiet, though they be fierce. But if you put into either ear one, you shall have them as mild as a Sheep. Mizaldus had this as proved, of one of the King of Navarres stable.  
ANy stones will easily be made soft, if you lay them all night in the hot blood of an Ox, the fat of a Weather, and strong vinegar mixed together johan. Baptista porta, de Magia Naturali. As Mizaldus' writeth.  
APples that are frozen, if they be put or cast into cold water, and suffered to lie therein a while: will come to their own nature again. For thereby all their frozen congealing will be resolved. Lemnius.  
WHen you see the Mulberry tree begin to bud, then think that the chief cold is past. Plinius, as Mizaldus' affyrmes.  
TO separate Gold from Silver, do thus. Anoint the Silver that is guilted with the oil of linseed, and sprinkle thereon the powder of Roch Allom, and salt armoniac mixed together: which being well heated in the fire, quench in water: and the separate Gold will remain therein. Mizaldus had this of a cunning Goldsmith.  
A green jasper stone hanged at the neck, doth help and strengthen the stomach, and the mouth of the stomach very well. Which Galen affirms by the report of Mizaldus. If they behangd like a chain about the neck: so that the same stones do touch the mouth of the stomach.  
IF the head of a Wolf be hanged in a dovehouse, neither Cats, Wesels, nor any thing that will hurt the Pigeons, will enter therein. Rasis et Albertus.  
THey are like to have pains or diseases in their lights, or Lungs: or will have the Tysick, or be short breathed: that have in their Nativity, the Moon in the Angle of the earth (which is the fourth house) in conjunction with Mars or Saturn, or is Infortunate by them. And like wise if Venus be the Lady of the sixth house, and Infortunate in a fiery sign. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
IF you stamp Hariffe a little, and lay it in fair spring water for the space of xxiiii hours, and then wash any sore or scabby place therewith: it will heal it wonderfully. This hath been often proved to be true.  
A Precious and a proved medicine for the Stone. seeth in white wine, Time and Parsley very well, then strain it, and into a good draft thereof, shave a spoonful of white soap, and give it to them that are grieved with the Stone: and it will make them make water with speed.  
THe great number of Spiders do foreshow, that the Summer following will be pestiferous and plaguy. Mizaldus.  
THere were seen two Brethren at one birth in Austria, that if they did set the sides of their bodies towards gates or doors that were locked, the locks would then open. johannes Langius.  
CArduus benedictus stamped, and then well sodden with snet or swines grease, wine and wheat flower, until it be like an ointment: is an excellent medicine for sores and ulcers whatsoever. Yea, though the bones there with be bore, but you must anoint the sores twice every day: washing first the corruption from the sores, with white wine. Arnoldus.  
SAint Austin reports that he did hear whiles he traveled in Italy, that certain women was transformed into young Beasts of certain travellers, by the the eating of cheese, that they might carry their burdens.  
TAke one handful of Mugwoort, and seeth it in sweet oil Olyffe, until the third part of the oil be consumed: then anoint there with any part that is tormented or pained with the gout, and the pain thereof will be quickly gone or put away. This is an experiment of a kings Surgeon, against the gout of the feet and the hands. Mizaldus.  
IT is found by obeseruation, that Rats and Dormyse, will forsake old and ruinous houses, three months before they fall: for they perceive by an instinct of nature, that the joints & fastening together of the posts and timber of the houses, by little and little will be loosed: and so thereby that all will fall to the ground. Plinius, et Lemnius.  
IF one bleed on the right side of the nose, bow and press hard the parties right little finger that bleeds: if on the left side, than the little finger in like case, for therewith the bleeding will cease. This is a common and proved remedy. Mizaldus.  
IF you give half a scruple (which is the weight of xii. barley corns) of pure coral, made first in fine powder, with the nurse milk, to a child that is newly borne, before it taste any other thing: the same child shall never have the falling sickness. Arnoldus de villa nou●.  
ONne Baldus of Trydent, Doctor of both Laws, as he was playing with a little Whelp of his own, the same did bite him a little in the neither lip, who being ignorant that his said Dog was infect with madness: he himself within four months after, become mad, and at the last being past remedy did die miserably. Andrea's Matheolus, in diascoridem. Which let them mark & consider that have such pleasure in little Puppyts. Mizaldus.  
Whosoever is tormented with the Sciatica, or the gout: Let them take an herb called Speregrasse and stamp it, and lay a little thereof upon the grief: but put upon it a cockle, or a walnut sh●ll, and tie something on it, that the herb be not removed: and within six or eight hours at the most, it will make a great blister on the same place. Then lay a Clot leaf, or else a wort leaf on the same: but first let the water out of the blister with a pin, and it will draw out all the water that causeth the pain or grief. This helped one that was pained therewith twenty years.  
BOetins after Oppianum doth affirm, that Bells covered with the skin of a Wolf, do drowned the sound of other Bells that are covered with the skin of a Lamb.  
PUt two or more quick mice in a long or deep earthen pot, and set the same nigh unto a fire made of ash wood: and when the pot begins to wax hot, the mice therein will chyrpe or make a noise: whereat all the mice that are nigh them will run towards them, and so will leap into the fire, as though they should come to help their poor imprisoned friends or neighbours. The cause whereof Mizaldus ascribes to the smoke of the Ash wood.  
IF you seeth the dregs or mother, or foam of Oil, to the half: and therewith anoint the bottom corners and feet of any chest or press, the clothes that you lay therein, shall never be hurt with moths. So that it be dry before you put therein your clothes. M. Varro, and Cato.  
IF one ask the Astrologian, which part of his life is like to be the most fortunate. Let him give the first quarter of his life to the Ascendent: the second quarter of his life to the tenth house: the third quarter to the seventh house: and the fourth part of his life, to the fourth house. And mark in which of them there is fortunate Planets, and the part Fortune, and the Moon free from Infortunate Planets, and not combust. judge that, that part of the life is or will be most fortunate. Haly Abenragel.  
IF you would not have heairs to grow, pluck them first up by the roots, then use to rub the same place with Aqua fortis divers times, a little at once: and it will stay the heair from growing there any more. A woman told me this for a great secret.  
MAke a plaster of potter's clay mixed with vinegar, & the white of an egg: and apply it to the cods of him that bleeds at the nose, and straight way his bleeding will stay or cease. This is a sure proved medicine, and an excellent secret.  
Give to a woman, that suspects herself to be with child, at night when she goes to bed, a clove of Garlic to eat: and if she feel any savour thereof in the morning when she riseth, than she is not with child. If she feel no savour thereof, than she is with child. This I had out of an old written book.  
THey will have weak or feeble hearts, or will be much given to sounding: In whose Nativity the Sun is Lord of the sixth house, or Lord of the part of infirmity, being impedite, or Infortunate. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
AN excellent & approved thing to make them slender, that are gross. Let them eat three or four cloves of Garlic, with as much of bread and butter every morning and evening, first and last: neither eating nor drinking of three or four hours after their taking of it in the morning, for the space of fourteen days at the lest: and drink every day three good draftes of the decoction of Fennel, that is: of the water wherein Fennell is sod, and well strained, fowretene days after at the lest, at morning, noon and night. I knew a man that was marvelous gross, and could not go a quarter of a mile, but was enforced to rest him a dozen times at the lest: that with this medicine took away his grossness, and after could journey very well on foot.  
FINIS. Lib. 2.   

❧ The third Book of Notable things.  
Five Eggs laid in the evening, in strong and tart Vinegar, and taken out of the same the next morning: so that you perceive their shells therewith to be something sost, else let them lie longer therein: and then put or thrust them down into the throat of a Horse that hath the cough, his tongue being holden all that while out of his mouth: will help him perfectly of the same.  
THe Turtle dove hath such a love one to another being makes, that when one of them is dead: the other will never after have any other make. Aristot.  
IF one ask the Astrologian, which part of the land or country is best for him: Or if one would go out of the place he dwells in, to devil in another, and doth ask into what quarter or part were best for him to go. Mark in what part of the Heavens, the good planets be, from his Ascendent, and judge that, that part where they are found is best for him: but consider that from the degree ascending, to the beginning of the tenth house, is for the East part: and from the Cusp of the tenth house, to the beginning of the seventh house, is for the South part: and from the Cusp of the seventh house, to the beginning of the fourth house, is for the West part: and from the Cusp, or beginning of the fourth house, to the Cusp of the Ascendent, is for the North part. Haly Abenragel. And as these quarters and parts are good to remove unto, where the good Planets are placed: even so those quarters where evil Planets are placed, are evil to devil in.  
A Certain woman, a Florentine, was so pulled and griped in her stomach with such torments, that no Physicians could help: which woman of a sudden, did vomytte long and crooked nails, needles of brass, with wax, and lumps of heair: and at last she avoided out of her mouth, a great fleshy piece, such a one as a Giant could not swallow. The Author hereof is Benivenius de admirandis morborum causis. But he saith, that the said woman was possessed of a wicked spirit. Mizaldus. (Which I believe was done by the devil.)  
PLynie reports, that men in ancient time, did fasten upon the gates of their Towns, the heads of Wolves: thereby to put away Wytcherie, Sorcery, or Enchantment. Which many hunter's observes, or do at this day: but to what use they know not.  
A Mole or a Wont enclosed in an earthen pot: If you set then the powder of Brimstone on fire, she will call other Moles or Wonts to help her with a very mourning voice. Mizaldus.  
IF you take an Oak Apple from an Oak tree, and open the same: you shall find a little worm therein, which if it doth fly away, it signifies wars: if it creep, it betokens scarceness of Corn: if it run about, than it foreshows the plague. This is the countrymen Astrology: which they have long observed for truth. Mizaldus.  
IF a man be sick, mark his eyes when he sleepeth, for if any white thing appear betwixt the eye lids, and the patiented have no great lax, nor received any purgation before: it is a terrible and deadly sign. Aphor. Hippocr.  
Whosoever is troubled with the cough, or shortness of breath: let them drink a good draft something warmed, of this following, thrice every day first and last, and one hour after dinner, for the space of seven or eight days: and it will help them (God willing:) for it is an excellent and often proved thing. Take of the roots of Enulacampana, cut in small pieces, of Hyssop and Peniryall, and also of good scraped Lyqueris, of each two handful. seeth them all in a gallon of pure and fair water, until the water come to one pottle, then strain it well, and keep it in a clean vessel, close stopped or covered, and use it as is before said.  
Soap mixed with a little salt, healeth perfectly a Felon, Uncome, or other sore or swollen finger, with speed. I know that this hath been well proved.  
THe white of an egg wall beaten and mixed with the powder of Mastic, helps chapped hands: if they be anointed therewith.  
MOwseare, any manner of way ministered to Horses: brings this help unto them, that they cannot be hurt whiles the Smith is shoeing of them. Therefore it is called of many, Herba clavorum, the herb of nails. Mizaldus.  
IF a fir tree be touched, withered, or burned with lightning: it signifies, that the master or mistress thereof shall shortly die. Servius.  
GAlen sayeth, that he hath found by experiences, (following the opinions of many) when any shall fall sick, and the Moon then be in the sign wherein a good Star (or planet) was found in the time of his birth, without doubt he shall escape from such sickness. If in the place of an evil Star (or Planet) he will not escape. johannes. Taysnier.  
seeth the leaves of an Oak, and the middle rind thereof in water, and wash the head that is sore, or full of Pustules therewith: and it will help it presently. This hath been often and well proved.  
Ganivetus saith, that in the year of our Lord 1418 the xxiiii day of August, before four a clock at after noon, in the hour of Saturn: A certain priest called johannes Morterius▪ did ask him for a certain brother of his, which was sick: what should be the end of his disease, death or health? Who after he had erected the celestial fyg●re therefore, espying Mars within one degree of the Ascendent in a movable sign, beholding also the part fortune of a quartile aspect, with divers other testimonies and evil signs. And also Mercury being the Lord of the house of the Moon, in the eight house, both Retrograde and Combust. judgde that the party would be mad, and so die within a day after: which the messenger did declare unto his friends, and to the Master of him that was sick, being his brother. Which happened so. For about four of the clock the next morning, he was so frantic, that he had like to have killed his Master and others. But they were preserved through God's special gift. And after being close in a chamber, did break a post, and so cast himself headlong down, and died.  
THe root of Pelleter of Spain, chewed between the teeth a good while: will purge the head and gums very well, and fasten the teeth. So that it will help the head ache and tooth ache: if it be used four or five times in a day, two or three days together. It is very true and often proved.  
MAke that, that is shorn from Scarlet, into powder by drying it at the fire, or in an Oven, and then give to the party that hath the bloody flux to drink: half a spoonful thereof in red wine. Use this five or six times, and it will help him, or her shortly: and certainly (God willing.) This is well proved.  
THe gall of a Partriche, anointed once in a month on the Artyres of the temples of the head: So that it may penetrate and sink in, doth profit very much for the confyrming of the memory. Simeon Sethi.  
IF the tail of a wolf be buried or put in the ground of any Town or Uylledge: no wolf will enter in that Town or Uylledge. Rasis.  
ALbertus makes mention of a Well, that whatsoever is thrown into the same: is turned into a stone. Whereof proof was made by Frederick the first, who: because he would not be deceived, he threw into the same one of his gloves, whereto first: he put wax and sealed it with his own Ring, and the one half of the glove which was under the water, become stone: the other part above the water remained as it was before.  
IF one go to any body, and doth ask them, being learned in Astrology, whether he shall find him or speak with him or not. Mark the Lord of the seventh house, whom if thou find in an Angle: say that he is at home. If in a Succedent house, than he is nigh home. And mark if between the Lord of the Ascendent, and the Lord of the seventh house, there be any application, or if there be any Planet beholding the seventh house, and carries the light of the one to the other, or that doth join their two lights, and it be thus: then tell him that he shall find him. If not, than he shall not▪ Haly Abenragel. Which is true, so that the party doth go to his Wife, or to his enemy, or to any other common person, But according to Guido Bonatus: if he go to a king, or to his master: than you must take the tenth house, and the Lord thereof: if to a Priest, a Prelate, or a Bishop: than you must consider of the ninth house, as Haly bids you. Do by the seventh house: if to your son or daughter, than the first house: if to your Father, the fourth house: if to your brother, than you must judge as before, by the third house. And so of the rest, according to the significations of every house. Wherefore the learned in Astrology are not ignorant: and this is a very true rule thoroughly▪ and many times observed. And if the Lord of the seventh house, or the house, that the party travels unto, doth signify, be in a Cadent house: then the party is far from home, so that he is not like to speak with him.  
MAny have proved that a sapphire tied to the Artyer, doth put away the heat in an ague. And the same stone borne against thy heart, doth preserve the bearer thereof from the plague, and from venomous things. Rasis, et Albertus. And other.  
IF one that hath eaten Garlic or Coomynfeede, breath on the face of a woman that is painted, the colour will vanish away straight, if not: then her colour remains as it did before. Lang.  
THe leaves of an Elm tree, or of a Peach tree, falling before their time: doth foreshow or betokens a morion, or death of cattle. Cardanus.  
Tyberius' Caesar, (who was Emperor of Rome when Christ suffered,) when he awaked out of sleep: did see in the dark as Cats do. Suetonius.  
Whosoever eateth two Walnuts, two figs, twenty leaves of Rew, and one grain of Salt, all stamped and mixed together, fasting: shallbe safe from poison and plague that day. Which Antidote King Mithridates had used so much, that when he drunk poison purposely to kill himself: it could not hurt him. Plynius.  
IF you shall enclose seeds of divers kinds, either in ware, or in some other fast matter, made something thine or small, shooting out of length, (that is:) as long as you would have the same to grow, and then putting the same in the ground well dunged: a marvelous hedge will spring thereof. This is the workmanshyppe and experiment of the King's gardener. Mizaldus.  
THe Elephants have sense and understanding next unto man, and it seems they know, and keep the course of the Stars: for at the change of the Moon they break down bows from the trees, & holds them then moving them up and down, and they are marvelous docible. Gellius, and Plynie hath left it witnessed by Mutianus that was thrice Consul, as also Plutarch: that an Elephant did write the Greek Letters. And Aelianus saith, that an Elephant did write all the Latin Letters in order, with other things incredible▪  
Grind Mustard with vinegar, and rub it well and hard on the plants or soles of the feet: and it will help and quicken forgetful persons. Petrus Hispanus.  
A Most notable and proved Water, to claryfie the dimness of the eyes, or sight, doth follow. Take the juice of Fennell, of Celendyne, of rue, and of Eybright, of each two ounces: Honey one ounce and a half, Aloes, Tutie, and Sarcacol, of each half an ounce: the gall of a Capon, Chicken, or Cock, two drams: Nutmegs, Cloves, and Saffern, of each one dram, Sugar candy, six drams: Put all into a Lymbeck of glass, and distill it: and put of this water into your eyes once in the day, two or three drops at a time: And there can not be a more precious thing for the eyes then this. I know it by proof, and therefore I am the bolder both to praise it, and publish it abroad to the great comfort of other.  
THe three score & third year of ones age, is counted to be a dangerous and perilous time: for that it doth pass seldom without danger of life, or without some other great misfortune. As it is observed in many examples. Hereof Augustus Caesar, (as Gellius reporteth) was marvelous glad, that he had escaped that year of his age. The cause may be, that the seventh year, and the ninth year (being Anni climacterici et critici, which are judicial years) multiplied together: makes the said number of .63. This Mizaldus describes.  
seeth ivy berries in vinegar, or in white wine: and when they be well sod, sup of the same hot lyccour: and when it is cold spit it out, and sup more thereof. Whosoever doth thus, it helpeth the tooth ache.  
THey in whose Nativity Venus is impedite or Infortunate of Saturn: Are like to have pains or griefs in their stones, especially, if she be in the Ascendent. And likewise, if Venus be with Mars in the eight house: or if the Moon Venus and Mars be conjunct, or in the evil aspect of Saturn. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Whosoever is lame, and can neither go nor stir their joints: Let them take of good Aqua composita, and oil of Roses, of either a like much, mix them both together, and anoint the grieved place therewith morning and evening, until he be well. (Which will be within a while after) but rub the place with warm clothes well before. A thing often proved.  
Whosoever hath Mars in the Horoscope, or the Ascendent, at the time of his birth: certainly, he will have a special scar or mark in his face. Pro. Which I have tried in many, and yet never have found it false.  
THe circles of cart wheels, empty carts, and the comb on a Cock's head: do marvelously fear a Lion, (being a most hardy, or fierce beast:) but of all things he fears fires, torches light, or fyrebrands. Plynius, Aelianus et alij.  
THat pigeons be not hunted or killed of Cats, at the windows & every passage, and at every Pygions' hole, hung or put little branches of Rew: for Rew hath a marvelous strength against wild Beasts. (As Didimus doth say.)  
IF the tail of a Wolf be hanged in a house, no Wolf will enter therein: neither any Flies will fly into the same. Rasis et Alb.  
IF a mad man use to laugh, it is a laudable sign: but if he be very sad, it it is perilous. Aphor. Hippocratis.  
THis medicine following, will procure a good stomach to meat. Take three drams of good Cinnamon, one dram of Mastic, one dram of the parings of Pomegranates, and half a dram of Galingale, and stamp all these together, and temper it with clarified Honey: and then use to eat as much of thereof, as a Nut every day, during ten days, fasting: and it will procure a good stomach, and also preserve and keep the same from any evil humours to breed therein. This is an excellent medicine, and often proved, and easy to be made.  
IF you mark where your right foot doth stand at the first time that you do hear the Cuckoo: and then grave or take up the earth under the same, wheresoever the same is sprinkled about: there will no fleas breed. Plynie by Mizaldus' report. And I know that it hath been proved true.  
TO make the counterfeit Mandrag, which hath been sold by deceivers, for much money: Do thus as followeth. Take the great double root of bryony, newly taken out of the ground, and with a fine sharp knife, frame the shape of a Man or Woman of the same, with his stones and cods, and other members thereto. And when it is clean done, prick all these places with a sharp steel, as the head, the eye brows, the chin, and the privities, and put into the said holes the seeds of millet, or any other that brings forth little small roots, that do resemble heayrs: (which leek seeds will do very well) or else ba●ly, after this put it in the ground, and let it be covered with earth, until it have gotten upon it a certain little skin: and then thou shalt see a monstrous Idol, and heairie, which will become the parts well: if it be workmanlie, or cunningly made, or figured. Mizaldus. Another trim way for the like, is in the natural and artificial conclusions, Englished by Thomas Hill.  
Whosoever anoints his feet or hands, with the grease of a Wolf: he shall not be hurt with any cold of his hands, or feet so anointed. Mizaldus.  
Five leaved grass, through jupiter's force, doth resist venom or poison. Whereof, if one leaf twice every day, morning and evening be drunken with wine: It is said to put away the Quotidian ague. Three leaves the Tercian ague. And four leaves the Quarten ague. Marcilius Ficinus.  
IF in the beginning of the sickness, or at the time of ask of the question for the sick: the Lord of the Ascendent and the Moon, be in the fourth or eight house, Combust or Cadent, or convinced with the Lord of the eight house: they give a certain testimony of death. And if one of them only, that is the Lord of the Ascendent or the Moon be so, it is a testimony of death: as is before said. johan. Ganivet.  
VArueyn stamped and strained with wine, water, or vinegar, and then given to a woman that travels, or is in her labour, and can not be delivered: it causeth speedy deliverance. Trotula de passionibus mulierum. And Gysbertus affirms the like, if it be drunk with water.  
A Strange medicine and a rare secret, for consuming the web in the eye: oftentimes proved. Take nine little worms with many feet, of some called Swine lice, (if they be touched, they become round as a button, they are to be found between the bark and the wood of old timber or trees:) stamp them with a little juice of Woodbine, or Betony, then strain the same well: and let the party that hath the web in his eye, drink it in a morning something warmed. Do thus three mornings together, and it will cure it perfectly, (God willing.) This was told me for a very truth, by one that had proved it divers times.  
THis that followeth is a special medicine for them that swoonds, or are faint at the heart. Take Rosemary, Sage, Betony, and Margerom, of ●ache one handful, and seeth them in a gallon, or more of fair water, till half the water be consumed: then take away the herbs, and put to the said water a good pint of Honey, and then skymme it well, and then put thereto an ounce of Stycados, tied in a fair linen cloth, and let it seeth a little while, and then take it out of the said water, and then put thereto one ounce of Cinnamon, three quarters of an ounce of Nutmegs, and as much of Gynger in powder: And use to drink a good draft thereof twice every day something warm, first and last: for the space of six or seven days: And then it helps perfectly.  
THat Child will be deaf, that is borne when Mercury is Lord of the sixth house, and Infortunate by an evil aspect with Saturn, chief: if he be in the sixth house. Likewise, they will have great impediment in their hearing: in whose Nativity, jupiter and Saturn be both impedite or Infortunate above the earth. That is: if they be Retrograde, or Combust in evil places. jatro.  
THey that have any pains, or swelling in the throat: let them take a jews ear, (which is to be had at the Apothecaries) & lay it to steep in Ale, a whole night, and let the party drink a good draft thereof every day, once or twice, until they perceive themselves amended. A proved thing.  
A Strange matter, and a thing followeth worthy of memory. Whosoever hath the kings Evil, and looks upon a certain Bird, called Galgulus, of a marvelous shape and quick sight, by and by the same bird doth draw to her the yellow vapours of choler, & heals the party perfectly through a certain great benefit of nature. But where as through a secret gift of Nature she doth perceive or smell the diseased party to come toward her, she will close her eyes, & hide her head under her wings, not that she doth envy the party's health, or loath to help him of his disease: But because she doth greatly fear the sharpness of the humour, which the nearer the party infected comes to her, the more it will pain her, & he the more eased. Therefore they were wont to sell this Bird to such as had this disease, in some close thing, or covered: lest the party should be healed for nothing. The Authors hereof are Hilodorus, Plutarch, Aelianus, Suidas, and Plynie, with other. And Kirannides, and after him Albertus' reports: that if this Bird refuse to look upon the diseased party, it is a token that he shall die thereof. But if he look even upon him, she draws the disease to herself, and then by and by or soon after, (she flying against the Sun,) doth vomit it out of her. And thus she doth both cure the sick party, and deliver herself from the same, through a certain marvelous benefit of Nature. But learned men do much dyscent in taking of this Bird. Plynie contends that it is Icterus, some do think that it is Chloreus, or Chlorio, which the French men calls Lorion and Loriot. The best part of the Physicians defends that it is Charadrius: some affyrmes that it is Oriolus: others say that it is Galbulus, or Galbula, or Chloris: which Gesner likes not. And Mizaldus leaves it to the judgement of the Doctors or learned until experience shall try the truth thereof. Mizaldus in 〈◊〉 Mirabilibus seu arcanis.  
Orpheus' and Archelaus 〈◊〉, by the report of Plynie: that if the 〈◊〉 of them be smeared with man's blood, that are fallen of the falling sickness, by & by they will be delivered from the trance or ●yt: or if their great toads be then next pulled or pinched.  
THe middle rind of a Cherie tree, stamped & strained, & the said juice put into a little white wine warmed, and then given to drink to them that have the stone: or can not make water, it avoids the gravel or stone, and makes them to make water presently. Use it three or four times.  
ONe may make beyond sea Azure, as followeth, & counterfeit it very well. Take common Azure, and beat or stamp it well with Vinegar, & anoint therewith a thine plate of pure silver, and put the same over a vessel full of urine: which set over hot ashes and coals, and let it be moved & stirred, until it be like beyond sea Azure. This is the best way. Mizaldus' affyrmes that he had this out of an old written book.  
IF you do put quick silver into a pot amongst seething or hot pease, the pease will leap out of the pot: except the brim or mouth of the pot be to high, or the fire to small. Mizaldus saith, that this is proved.  
Barley half sod, given to Hens to be eaten, makes them say often, and their eggs to be greater. This is affirmed for truth.  
IF any doubt, or fear any thing whatsoever it be, and asketh thee having knowledge in Astrology thereof: mark and consider the Lord or Almuten of the Ascendent, whom if thou dost find pure and safe from infortunes, and he be holding the Ascendent, the fear is needless. For no harm shall happen according to the fear. Haly Abenragel.  
Savoury beaten and sodden in vinegar, and laid in manner of a plaster, to the hinder part of the head: doth merrelye awaken those that are heavy with sleep.  
HEre followeth the making of a pleasant oil of Cloves. Take of Cloves one pound, which beat to powder in a brazen mortar: then add thereto three pound of Almonds scraped and beaten in a mortar: and when they be well mixed together▪ sprinkle thereon four ounces of the best white wine: letting it so lie in a mass, for the spare of eight days at the least▪ after that stamp the whole over again, & then put it into a new earthen pan, which heat over the fire so long, that you can not suffer your hand in it: then put it up into square bags, and wring the same hard in a press, until all the whole substance of the oil become.  
TAke a Frog, and cut her through the mids of the back with a knife, and take out the liver, and fold it in a Colewoort leaf, and burn it in a new earthen pot well closed: and give the ashes thereof unto him or her, that hath the falling sickness to drink with Wine, and it will help him. And if the party be not healed at once: then do so by another Frog, and so do still, and without doubt it will heal him: if he use it. This was told me for a sure experiment: And it is also affirmed by Petrus Hispanus.  
A Wonderful thing, passing all credit, chanced in the Bishopric, or diocese of they of Eistettence, in Germany: but that it was seen of divers credible witnesses. A certain husbandman there called Vlricke Neucesser, being tormented with cruel pains, in one of his sides, suddenly took hold of a nail that was under the skin unhurt: which cut by a Surgeon, he took out the nail: yet for all that the pains did not cease. Wherefore the miserable man suspecting that there was no remedy to be had for his pain, but by death: he took a knife and cut his throat. And the third day after he being ●arryed to burying, there was three present, one Eucharius, Rosenbader, of Wessemburge, and john of Ettenstet▪ Surgeons, in the presence of many, which did cut or open the belly and Maw of the said dead Husbandman. Wherein was found (being marvelous and prodigious) a long and round piece of wood, four knives of Steel, partly sharp, and partly nyckte like a Saw, and two sharp instruments of iron, that was longer than a span: and they had therein also, heair rolled together as it were a round Bowl or Ball. This was laid or put in his Maw, by none other art, but only by the craft and subtlety of he devil. This hath johannes Langius written in the first part, of his medcinal Epistles. Epistol. 38. de prodigijs et prestigijs demonum in morbis. Mizaldus' reports it also.  
IN many Ponds, all the water & wood taken out, by and by Eels do breed: if rain water come into them, for that with the dew, they do live and are nourished. Aristo. Plutarch. And other.  
IF the right knee of a Bull be tied with a broad band, it will make him tame. Aelianus.  
LEt the party that bleeds, chaw the root of a nettle in his mouth, but swallow it not down: and without doubt the blood will staunch: for if one keep it in his mouth, he can loose no blood. Petrus Hisp.  
IF a mad man find ease in sleeping, it is good: but if his rage increase, it is to be feared. Hypocrates in suis Aphor.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent or the Moon, or the Lord of the sixth house, be Combust, or Retrograde, & the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house convinced to Mars, or Saturn: the sick must die of that disease. johannes Ganivetus. (But God can restore health past all hope.)  
THis medicine following doth marvelously break wind in the belly. Take Coomyn seed, Fennel seed, and Anne's seed, of each a like much: beaten them to powder, then seeth the same in wine, and drink a good draft thereof first & last, four or five days together, & you shall find a great help thereby: for it hath been often proved to their great ease & comfort that took the same.  
TAke a spoonful of Aqua vite, and two spoonful of the water of Arsemarte, and anoint any ache therewith twice every day, morning and evening: for the space of five or six days at the most, and it will heal it for ever. I had this out of an old written book.  
HE will be weak in the act of generation, in whose Nativity Venus is joined with Saturn, especially in the tenth or eight house: or that the Moon is joined with Saturn, in an evil aspect of Venus: or if Saturn be in the sixth, or twelfth house, in a moist sign Infortunating Venus. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
THis following is an excellent medicine for the stone. seeth an handful of Holly berries, in a pint of good Ale, till half the Ale be consumed: then strain it, putting then a little butter to it, and let the party drink thereof five or six spoonful: and within half an hour after, the party will make water: (if ever any medicine will 'cause it.) This was told me for a very true secret.  
THe learned and wise men among the Persians affirm, that if Sage be putrefied or laid to rot in horse dung, whiles the Sun and Moon do both occupy the second face of Leo: thereon will breed a Bird like an Ouzel, or black Bird: the ashes whereof being burned, and strewed or cast into a burning Lamp, will make the house seem to be full of Serpents. Hermes.  
IF the ears of Cats be stowde or cut off, it will make them keep home the better. For that, than the water (which they can not abide) will drop into their ears being open. And if they be gelded, especially the male Cat, they will not only be more tamer and fatter: but also thereby they will range abroad the less. Mizaldus.  
IT is said that Cockles & Oysters, in great thunders, do vomit and cast out then Pearls. Whereupon many are found in the sands. Mizaldus.  
WHen any draws nigh toward their death, and that their members lacks blood & vital heat: Then Fleas and lice leaves them quite, or else draws to that part of the body where the said heat tarries the longest: which is in the hole in the neck under the chin. etc. This is a token that death is at hand. Lemnius.  
THe leaves of Walwoort sod with Wine, doth marvelously mitigate the pains of them that are tormented with the gout: if they be applied to the place where the grief or pain is. There be that prefers and extols with marvelous praises: The juice expressed out of the leaves & roots thereof, sodden with Wine and May butter: and in the steed of a Lynyment, anointed still on the grieved member. That is three or four times every day. Mizaldus' learned this of one that proved it.  
A Ryshe dried, and put into Wine, if there be any water therein, it draws it to it. The Wine left alone, or together:) Which is good and profitable for trying of Wine. Mizaldus.  
A Notable medicine to heal lame members, doth follow. Take of oil Olyffe, Aqua vite, oil of Exetor, and of a Beasts gall, of each a like much, mix all together, and anoint the lame members therewith twice every day, morning and evening, the space of a fortnight, being well rubbed before: and it will help the same of a certainty. An old Woman in Worcester shyr●, did help many therewith.  
IF out of one pound of excellent Wine, with as much Salt as you can hold in your hand, and the lief of pure Wine, you do distill a water: You shall find that it will be the hottest water of all other. Mizaldus had this of a certain Alchemyst.  
IT is said that Hearts in Crete, being strooken with Darts envenomed: do eat of a certain herb called Dyttanie: and thereby the prick or any other thing that sticks in them is driven forth. Mizaldus.  
THere was a certain Woman great with child in Pago, not far from Andernacus, a Town of the bishop of Cullen: desiring or longing to eat, or to feed on her husbands flesh, and although she loved him entirely, she killed him in the night, & being satisfied with the half of his flesh, she powdered the rest with Salt: but after when her great longing did cease, and that she did repent the deed: she did confess it to her friends that sought for her husband. johannes Langius, in his medcynall Epistles. Therefore it is good for the husbands to take heed, whiles their wives have such inordinate longing upon them.  
MAny have been helped that have had fowl and leprous faces, only with the washing the same with the distilled water of Strawberries: the Strawberries first put into a close glass, and so putrefied in horse dung. Conradus Gesnerus.  
IF, at the time of the birth of any, Mercury be Occidental from the Sun, not under his light, or his beams: (except in Aries, or Leo) nor Retrograde: being then in any of the four Angles, strong, & well affected: doth show that the child then borne, shall be high minded, strong, and famed for his strength, & lyberallity: and shows also that he shallbe an Astronomer. For Mercury Occidental in Leo, is wont to make Astronomers. And Mercury oriental of the Sun, and strong, doth show, great knowledge, wisdom of handy works, chief: if he be with the Moon, or in the house of the Moon, that is Cancer: and if he be in a movable sign: it signifies inconstantnesse both of deed and mind. But in a fixed sign, inconstancy. Taisnier.  
primrose leaves stamped, and laid in the place that bleedeth, stauncheth the blood. This hath been proved.  
TAke black Soap, and almost as much of Ginger in powder, and mix them well together: then anoint therewith any Tetter or Ringwoorme every day, for the space of four or five days together, and it will heal it certainly. Proved.  
TAke Aloes Epatcum four drams, Briony, Mastic, Myrrh, Asarrabaccha, Scamony, of each a dram: mix the same made in powder, with the juice of Fennel, and a little clarified Honey to preserve them: Take a dram thereof, which is the weight of lxxii barley corns at the most, early in the morning, & neither eat nor drink of three or four hours after: If they be given nine days together, they help marvelously: and they are very excellent for all manner of head ache, approved (though never so long rooted.) They purge all humours, they bring gladness, they are good for the eye sight, they preserve the mind, letting or hyndring the horenes of heayrs, they help the swimming of the head, and the migrim, and heals the sounding of the ears. But to the weaker persons▪ give the lesser quantity. Make it in five or six little round pyls or balls, and swallow them one after another at one time. They are proved to be very good. I found this in a very old written book.  
IF Mercury be impedite of Saturn in a chylds' Nativity, it doth hinder the tongue. But it is worse when they be corporally conjunctly together, especially, in the Ascendent, or in the seventh house, and in the same sign with the Sun, (Mercury being then occidental:) or if Mercury be above the earth corporally conjunctly with Saturn, or else in an evil aspect of Saturn, and in a dumb sign called Signum mutum, and also is Infortunate, that is to say: in an evil place. Retrograde or combust, and peregrene: That party then borne, will have great impediment in his tongue, or else will be dumb, and cannot speak. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Johannes Langius an excellent Physician saith, that he heard it reported of certain Horsemen of the country Palentine, that they did see in Austria, a man, which with barking, and with swift running, contended and strived with Dogs, and was hunted of them unhurt in the woods.  
THe eyes of young Swallows being in the nest, pricked with an needle or a pin, & so made blind: within four or five days after, they will see again. Which is very true, for I have proved it. But how they recover their sight I know not: But divers write, if their eyes be hurt, the old Swallows restores their sight again with the juice of Celendin.  
WHite Poppy and Henbane seed, a little stamped, and tempered with the white of an egg & laid to the forehead: provoketh sleep. This hath been often proved.  
THis following will heal lame members. See the Rew, & Rosemary, of each two handful, with common Oil, & Malmsey, of either one quart together, for the space of half an hour: Then let the lame members be washed and bathed therewith, (but before the said member or geieved place must be well chafed with a hot cloth,) then when it is well bathed (which will be within half an hour) wrap & keep the member or place so bathed with a lamb skin (the wool side inward,) and do thus every night before, or at his going to bed, three weeks at the lest, and he will be hole and sound thereof. Doctor Owen helped one herewith, and with none other thing, that could neither stand nor go: but was very lame. They that saw the proof thereof told it to me: which was and is a man of good credit.  
IT was a heinous offence with the Egyptians, either willingly, or by chance to kill a Cat. And Diodorus tells a pretty story thereof, lest it might be thought to be a fable. In the time of Ptolemy, a league or amity being begun between him & the Romans: A certain Roman then against his will, had killed a Cat: whereupon the Egyptians gathered together, and did beset the house where he was, requiring to have him to be executed for his great offence, (no whit regarding the power of the romans, nor yet their lague or friendship with them:) When, had not the King and Rulars been, they would have drawn him out of the house, and killed him. Diodorus.  
TO keep Harness, or any other thing made of iron or steel from rusting. Let the same be rubbed over with Vinegar mixed with Ceruse, or the marrow of a heart, (which is far better than Oil,) and it will keep them fair and bright.  
IF the Lord of the second house, be in the first house, & Fortunate (the child then borne,) shall possess riches without labour. And by the nature of the Planet thou mayst know whereby the riches will come. As if it be the Sun, it will come to him by power, that is, the richeses will happen by help or favour of great men: if Mars, then by wars, or by theft: if Saturn, of the inheritance of the dead: if jupiter, of faith (religion) or of Masters of faith, (or of the law, and such like) appertaining to jupiter: if Venus, by women: if Mercury, by learning, wisdom, or merchandise: if the Moon, by the works of hands, or by iournyes▪ but if the Lord of the second house (so placed) be not fortunate, and an evil planet beholding him, he shall loose all his goods. Taisnier.  
A Notable oil or medicine for the Gout, & joint aches, very true and often proved. Take the juice of Sage, of Aqua vite, of oil Debaye, of Vinegar, Mustard, and of a Beasts gall, of each a like much: put them all together into a great blather, and chafe it well up and down with your hands, for the space of an hour and a half, and keep it then to your use, and anoint the grieved place therewith, every morning and evening: and you shall find yourself healed within a short time. This is a sure and often proved thing.  
THis precious medicine following, doth preserve & keep them that takes it, safe from poison or plague. Take of jumper berries two drams, of Earth of Lemnie, called of the Physicians, Terre Lemnie, as much, and one scruple more, which i● the weight of xxiiii. barley corns. When you have made them in fine powder, mix them with Honey, and keep it ●o your use in a clean vessel: give as much thereof at one time as a Hasell nut, in three ounces of Aqua Mulsa (which is made with water and Honey, that is of one pound of Honey, and eight pound of water sodden and skimmed over an easy fire: until the fourth part be consumed.) This excellent Antidote did King Necomedes use, when any did bid him to banquet, or any other cheer, that he did suspect. If there be no poison taken before it, it will remain quietly in the stomach: but if there be any poison, it will procure vomit: so that thereby the poison and medicine will both come forth. Myzaldus.  
A Notable thing to 'cause one to sleep immediately. Take of the juice of Henbane, of Lets, of Planteyn, of Poppy, of the leaves of Mandrag, of ivy leaves, of Mulberry leaves, and of Humlocke, of each one dram, of Opium, and of ivy berries, of either as much: stamp the ivy berries and the Opium together, and mix the juices & them well together: then dip a sponge into the same, and let it drink it all up, and then lay the same sponge in the Sun to dry: after say the said sponge to the party's nose whom you would have to sleep, and he will sleep quickly. And when you will awake him, dyppe another sponge in vinegar, and hold it to his nose, and he will awake within a while after. This is an excellent thing and true.  
BEware that nothing bind thy body hard, when thou bleeds, and then hold thy handful of shepherds Purse, and steadfastly look up to the Sun, and the bleeding will cease. This is proved.  
TO make a powder that will draw out a tooth without any instrument. Take Spurge, Pellyter of Spain, Smalledge, the dung of a Raven, or of a Crow, Galbanum, the brain of Partreches, and also a Frog, of each a like much: burn all these together in a new earthen pot, all to powder, and with a little of the same powder, touch the tooth that you would have fall out: and doubtless within a quarter of an hour it will fall out. But you must take heed that you touch none other teeth therewith. This I had out of an old written book, wherein was many excellent true things.  
seeth Mallows and red Nettles together in fair water, and let the party that is costyffe, or can not go to the stool, sit close over the same, and receive the fume thereof up into his fundament: and it will help him certainly, and speedily, (God willing.) A thing often proved.  
FINIS. Lib. 3.   

❧ The fourth Book of Notable things.  
MAke Dwale as followeth, which makes one to sleep, whiles he be cut or burned by Cawterizing, as followeth. Take the gall of a barrow swine, or the gall of a Boar, the juice of Humlocks three spoonful, of the juice of wild Neppe, three spoonful, of the juice of Lettys, of the juice of Poppy, of the juice of Henbane, and Asell, of each three spoonful: mix them all together, and boil them well, and do them in a glasen vessel well stopped, and put three spoonfuls thereof in a quart of good wine or Ale, and mix them well together: And let him that shallbe cut or Cawterized sit against a good fire, and give him drink thereof till he fall a sleep. This I had also out of an old written book. Use it warily, and prove it advisedly: if you begin with a little quantity▪ you may increase it when you will: but if you give too much at once, you can not dyminish it when you list.  
THey will be hindered in their smell, or will have diseases or griefs in their noses: In whose Nativity Mars and Venus are impedite above the earth. jatromath.  
Dry the roots of 〈◊〉 ●●●tles, and make them in powder, & 〈…〉 of the powder thereof in a draft of white Wine something warm, and it will break the stone though it be never so great, & that with speed. Use it every day until the stone and gravel be all broken and consumed. A thing of small price and great virtue.  
A Comb made of the right horn of a Ram, doth take away the head ache, being on the right side of the head: if the pained head be combed therewith. If the pain be on the left side of the head, than a comb made of the left horn of a Ram, doth take it away: if the pained head be combed therewith. This I had out of an old book.  
THebit the Philosopher, doth teach that to get the virtue of any Star: you must make a ring when the Moon doth behold happily by a Trine or sextile aspect (the same Star placed in the mids of the Heavens, or in the Ascendent:) but the matter or substance of the Ring must be made of that metal, that belongs to that Star: and like wise an herb ascribed to the said Star, must be included or put under that Ring.  
dip a silken thread in the blood of a Mouse, and then let the patient swallow it that hath the Squynancie, or swellings, or pains in the throat, and it will help him.  
THis following is a notable medicine for the gout. Take the root of wild Neppe, and the root of the wild Dock, first sodden by themselves: then pare of the skins, and cut them into pieces & stamp them both together, as small as can be: then put thereto a quantity of soot of a chimney, and temper them with the milk of a Cow that hath the heair of one colour: then take urine of a man that is fasting, and make a plaster thereof, & boil all together, and as hot as the party can suffer it, lay it to the place pained or grieved, and a day & a night without removing, and then lay another plaster of the same to it, and let it lie thereto as long as the other. And do thus nine times, and it will help him on warrantyes (God willing.) Proved.  
IF iron (that is made clean or polished) be tyncted or rubbed over with Aqua fortis, wherein the filings, or scrapings of brass is dissolved: That iron will have the colour of brass. Bap. Porta.  
A Horse that casts, or holds his cares backward, for the most part is deaf. And that Horse that doth not neigh in the company of a great number of other Horses, is doom. Simoneta Cardinalis.  
THe best thing of all other to keep Harness, or any other thing made of iron or steel from rustiness, is this. Stamp the fyling or dust of lead, finely in a leaden or iron mortar, putting thereto a little oil of Spyke, (which besides makes it smell trymlie) and therewith rub over the Harness or any other thing as is beforesaid made of iron or steel. By this means you may carry your Harness or other things so rubbed therewith, in watery places, and in moist airs safe from rusting. Mizaldus had this of a cunning Armaror.  
IF one come to give thee counsel, and thou would know whether he mean well, or be a deceiver: Mark the tenth house, and if a good & fortunate planet be found there, his counsel is good, and true: But if there be an evil or an unfortunate planet there, he is a deceiver & a liar. Which I (saith Haly, as one that have proved it) do confirm, & do say: if one come to counsel thee, & the Ascendent be of common signs, or the Lord of the Ascendent, & the Moon be in common signs: do say, that he is then a deceiver, & will deceive thee. Therefore hearken not to him. Haly Abenragell.  
ONe knot of the root of a Mullen, given to drink, doth bind the looseness of the belly. Proved.  
HE that waxeth deaf through an ague & bleedeth at the nose, shall recover his hearing. Hippocrate● in Aphor.  
THis medicine following, is proved by experience, and as a certain divine thing, doth cure every pleurisy, and doth relieve the sick from death: which aught not to be applied unto the sick party, until the fourth day be past. Take of Dealtha two ounces, (which is to be had at the Apothecaries:) the oil of sweet Almonds half an ounce, mix them together: with which ointment (being warm,) let the grieved place be anointed: then sprinkle upon the anointed place half an ounce of powder of Coomin, finely fearced, (which done:) take a Colewoort leaf, made hot upon burning ashes, and anoint it with old butter (not salted,) and lay it hot upon the anointed & powdered place (tying it on with clothes that it remove not,) and a marvelous affect will appear unto you in the ceasying of the pain of the plurysie: and in resolving of the matter of the impostume. This remedy will bring honour unto thee, and great profit unto the sick person. And know that this remedy is good in any other great pain, in all the body, from the head under. Emperica benedicti victorij. And also I have seen this proved, which helped one of the plurisye without letting of blood.  
IF a Woman with child have her smock, that she wears, slit at the neither end or skyrt thereof, or not sowed there round about, but that one side or seam thereof, be a little left unclosed, or unsowed together: the same child that she than goeth withal, shallbe safe from having a cloven or hare lip. Yea, though she chance to meet suddenly a Hare, or though a hare doth leap over her, or suddenly touch her. Which happens to many Children by such means, as is mentioned in an other part of this book. This was very credibly told me for a truth. Therefore I have placed it here, as worthy the name of a notable thing.  
Whosoever shall use daily to take in a draft of small Ale, a spoonful of the powder of Matfellon or Scabius: the same will destroy any impostume within them. It hath been often proved. And Antonius Musa doth praise it for the like effect.  
IF the Lord of the sixth house be in the Ascendent, or tenth house, it shows that the disease is open & manifest: if in the seventh or fourth house, then the disease is privy or hid: if in the ninth or eleventh house, than it is open & manifestly known: in the other places, the disease is privy hid, or unknown. jatromath. Guat. Gryff.  
CLeopatra, the last Queen of Egypt, and Wife to Marcus Antonius Consul of Room, (a proud Princess, and too dainty a Dame) did drink one so voluptuous draft, as never any did before, (nor I think will hereafter:) for she dissolved in tart and strong Vinegar, the greatest and beutifullest Pearl that ever was seen in the East part of the world: and drunk the same at one draft, to satisfy her proud presumptuous pleasure withal. Which Pearl was worth two hundredth and fifty thousand crowns. Plinius, Macrob. And other.  
OUt of the Fig tree, there comes such a sharp vapour, that if a Hen be hanged thereon, it will so prepare her, that she will be soon and easily roasted. Plut. And the like will be if the feathers be plucked off from Fowls or Birds, & the skins pulled off from Beasts, and then laid or covered a day or two in a heap of Wheat. It is confirmed by experience, saith Mizaldus.  
THe professors of natural Magic, affirms, that Uarueyn being taken up or gathered, when the Sun is in Aries, the Ram: and stamped with the seeds of Pyonie, and strained with white Wine & drunk: doth marvelously heal them that have the falling sickness. Oftentimes proved saith Mizaldus. Which he had out of a very old book of the seven herbs of the planets, written to Hermes.  
WHen any of the three higher planets, & the Sun, is in any of the Angles, the child then borne (being a boy) shallbe chief of his brethren. Or if there be any borne before him, they will die: and he shall hold the chief rule in his father's house. Taisnier.  
Salted dissolved in water, or brine, presently with his strength, doth both put away the pains, and the heat of any burning, whether it be with Gunpowder, or with oil, pitch, scalding water, burning coals, burning iron, or by any other means whatsoever, especially: if it be bathed with linen clothes, wet or dypt in the same, and a linen clothe therein wet, laid or applied to the place burned. Lemnius.  
TAke Salarmoniacke, Roch alum, Allom plume, Sal gem, Tartar, and Roman Uitriall, of each equal parts, all which severally made in fine powder, mix together, and dissolve it in fair clear water: then put silver or silver plate therein, and let it lie, and set it over the fire that it may be very hot: and you shall see that your silver or plate will be marvelous white and fair. Mizaldus.  
THe root of Zedoary (but be sure it be perfect and good) mixed with Raisins, and a little Lycqueris, champed with the teeth and swallowed: preserves them that do so, unhurt or without danger of the plague: if they go to any that are infected with the plague, or that are constrained to speak with them that have the plague. Mizaldus.  
THe root of Pyonie, (which is the herb of the Sun) being pulled out of the earth on a Sunday, in the hour of the Sun, the Sun then being in Leo, called the Lion: and the Moon increasing in light, (which is from her change to the full,) delivereth them of the falling sickness, that bears it upon them. Marcilius Ficinus.  
IF at the time of the first falling sick of one, or at the time of the question for the sick, the Moon be in the fourth house, with Mars, and good planets be Cadent: It is sign of death. johannes Ganiverus.  
LEt the Woman that travels of her child, (or is in her labour,) be girded with the skin that a Serpent or Snake casts off: and then she will quickly be delivered. Trotula.  
A marvelous rare Secret, to draw out the oil of cinnamon after an easy manner: which oil preserveth the stomach from corruption, by taking of it by the mouth, and applying of it to the stomach. Take of cinnamon one pound, which stamp and beat finely: then mix and impast it with the oil of sweet Almonds, unto the form of an ointment, than heat the same in an earthen pan somewhat, which after let stand (close covered) for fowreteene days or twelve at the lest: At the end of which time, heat the whole again sufficiently, (that is, until it be very hot:) then put it into a bag, and wring out the oil in a press, until the whole cinnamon remain through dry in the bags: and then that which is come forth, will be of the colour, savour, and taste of the cinnamon. A Secret, and known to few to be wrought in this order.  
THe powder of Pellyter of Spain, mixed with the milk of Wartwoort, or Spurge, and Galbanum, and a little thereof applied to any rotten or aching tooth: will break it, or pluck it out: and so the pain thereof will cease. This I had out of an old written book.  
IF you will know whether one shall escape or not, that is infected with the plague, (having the plague Sore,) give the party some excellent Treacle with white Wine, (so that he be not troubled with an ague, for then give the Treacle with Scabyus or Planten water,) and also anoint the plague Sore with the like Treacle: and if the same be dried or burned, and remain fixed, (the party thereby not relieved or eased) it is a very evil sign: but contrary, if the party be eased, it is a great sign that the party shall escape. Arnoldus.  
IN the common place where the Censors of Uenys sits, there never enters any Flies. Gandeut. Merula. And in the flesh Shambleses of Toledo, a City in Spain, is not seen but one Fly in all the whole year. As Leo Paptist. sayeth And in Westminster Hall, in the Timber work there, is not to be found one Spider, nor a Spider web. Because (as it is thought) the Timber wherewith the roof is builded, was brought out of Ireland, and did grow there. In all which Country of Ireland, I have not only heard it credibly told, that there is neither Spider, Toad, nor any other venomous thing: but also that some of the earth of that country hath been brought hither, whereon a Toad being laid, she hath died presently. Though this be marvelous & strange: yet it is true.  
IT is proved (saith Taisnier) if jupiter be in the fift or the twelfth house, whether he be oriental, or Occidental, of the Sun, or whether he be in a Masculine sign or feminine sign) the first child of him or her then borne, will be a boy.  
THe juice of ground ivy, snuffed up into the nose out of a spoon, or a saucer: purgeth the head marvelously, and takes away the greatest and eldest pain thereof, that is. This medicine is worth gold: though it be very cheap. I have known them that have had marvelous pain in their head, almost intolerable, for the space of a dozen years: and this hath helped them presently, and never had the pain since they took this medicine.  
THis medicine following will kill worms in the belly. Take the gall of an Ox or of a Cow, and so much of the flower of Lupynes' (which are to be had at the Apothecaries) as will thycken the same, mix them well together, and lay it on wool, and so plaster it to his belly where the grief is, and about the navel: and after twelve hours lay thereon another plaster. Do thus four or five days, and it will help him.  
HOw greatly is the sick party to be feared (or judged) not to escape, i● in the time of the question, or the first beginning of the sickness, both the Lumynaryes are under the earth. etc. jatromath. M. Guat. H. riff. argent.  
IF hot burning gold be quenched in pure Wine, (the same Wine being drunk) it procures strength to the chief members, and to the victual parts. And it makes strong the natural faculties, and doth help the diseased part, with strength and victual spirit. And this lycquour is thought to be very good in the time of Plague. And if the same be mixed with a little Tarter, it doth quite put away from any part of the body, all spots though they be never so fowl. Yea, it helps a leprous face, a read nose, and any other deformity of the same: If the place infected be washed and rubbed often times therewith. Lemnius.  
THe water that drops out of the vine, or the goom that is found there, (being drunk with white Wine:) doth break & expel the stones in the reins marvelously. And also being rubbed upon Ryngwoormes, Tetters, and leprous places, it doth cure them. But they must be rubbed before with Niter. This was told to Mizaldus, as a proved thing.  
IF his spittle which hath a consumption, (being cast upon the coals) doth stink, and the heair fall from his head: It is sign of death. Hypocrates in Aphor.  
THere is a certain Electuary of life, of Arnoldus de villa nova, in a little book of his, of the putting back of old age: described of the five kinds of Myrabolanes, made for the concerning or keeping of health, and prolonging of life. And it is a perfit & approved thing. For it doth not only comfort, but also it doth purge superfluous humours remaining of nutriment past: And the use thereof doth let or hinder grey heairs, and it makes one come to the last old age: It strengtheneth the stomach, and the use thereof maketh a good colour in all the body. And this is the description thereof. Take of great Raisins cleansed of their stones and stalks, two pound, Lycqueries made clean and beaten, one ounce: Let these be put into two pound and a half of fair water, and let them seeth well, and let them then be strained well: And in that that is strained, let there be put of Mirabolanes, Kebule, Citrine, and India, beaten in a Mortar, their stones taken away, of each two ounces: of Embelyck, & Bellerick, of either of them two drams: Let them be sod, strained & pressed, or well wrong, then put thereto white sugar, one pound: and seeth altogether to the thickness of a Syrup, and in the end add thereto of good cinnamon half an ounce, Cloves & Galengaye, of each two drams, two Nutmugs, Maratrum, and Anne's seed, of either one ounce: and make thereof a Lectuary, and keep it in a pure vessel. In this Electuary, be medicines of the principal members (that is to say:) of the heart, head, stomach, liver, Spe●n. And of the generative members: and it is first hot, after moist, then cold: and the last dry. johannes Ganivetus likewise describes it.  
Certain worms that shines in the night, called Glow worms, being well stopped in a glass, & covered within hootte horse dung, standing there a certain time, will be resolved into a liquor: which being mixed with like portion of quicksilver, first cleansed & purged: (which will be with half a dozen times washing in pure vinegar, mixed with bay salt, which after every washing & rubbing, must be cast away, and then hot water put to the quicksilver, & therewith washed) and then put & closed in a fair bright and pure glass, and so hanged up in the mids of a house, or other place, or room: will give such a light in the dark, as the Moon doth: when she shines in a bright night. johannes Baptist.  
A Piece of a child's Navel string, borne in a ring, is good against the falling sickness, the pains of the head, and of the collyck. Mizaldus.  
BAptista Fulgosus reports, that nigh to Sirminun, a City of Pamony, sometimes there hath been Tendrals of Gold found in the vines: whereof there hath been money coined. Which many have seen saith Gandeut. Meruba, in his time. And Alexander Neapolitanus saith: that he hath found in Germany, within Daunby, vines, that did bear little nails, and leaves of pure gold: which was given for presents to Kings and Dukes. Mizaldus.  
IF any doth ask thee (having knowledge in Astronomy,) whether that place where he dwells, is better for him, then that to which he means to go: behold, and if thou dost find the Moon separate from Infortune's, (that is from an evil Planette, or from an Infortunate Planette) tell him that his going is better than his tarrying: But if you find the Moon separate from a good or fortunate Planet, than it is better for him to tarry there still: then to go from thence to dwell. And to be brief, if one shall ask thee, saying thus: I must needs do a certain thing, (or I have certain business to do,) whether may I do it or not: then mark thou the Lord of the Ascendent, and the Moon, and if thou find them separate from evil Planets, or evil fortunes, applying to good or fortunate Planets, bid him do that, that he is determined to do, and spare not. But if thou find them separate from good Planets or fortunate, and applying to evil Planets: bid him that he do it not, neither take it in hand. Haly Abenragell.  
THat Woman is like to be barren, in whose nativity the Moon and Venus being in barren signs, are Infortunate of Mars and Saturn. Or if Saturn be in the seventh or tenth house, Infortunating 〈◊〉 and the Moon: or if Venus be with Saturn, and the Moon then in the sixth, or twelfth house Infortunate. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
THe seeds of Roses with Mustard seed, and the foot of a weasel, all together tied in some thing, & hanged among the bows or branches of a tree that bears but little fruit: It is said, that it will make that tree to bear well, and to be marvelous fruitful. Mizaldus.  
PAre the nails of one that hath the quarteyn ague, which being put into a linen cloth, and so tied about the neck of a quick Eel, and the same Eel put into the water: thereby the ague will be driven away. Geber et Alb.  
IF any list to sleep, and lay by him the branches of moist Hemp: Gnats will not trouble him, nor come near him. Myzaldus.  
IF the Lord of the twelfth house, be in the twelfth house: many debates and enmities will happen upon the day belonging to that Planet: to the child then borne. Taisnier.  
COoluer dung stamped, and used for a plaster with strong Vinegar, and applied to the Navel: bindeth incontinent all Fluxes of the belly. Macer.  
THe root of a gourd, tied to the reins of the back of Women, that is in labour or travel of child: doth cause speedy deliverance thereof. But let it be taken away as soon as the child doth come forth: lest the Matrix go out, after the child. Trotula de passionibus mulierum.  
HEre followeth an Electuary of a wonderful virtue in the time of Pestilence: this Electuary is of so great a virtue, in them that do receive it once in xxiiii hours, that they may be sure from all evil infections of corrupt and contagious airs, all the day after. But in them that are infect already, and are taken with the Pestilence, if they drink of it but one spoonful, as shall be said hereafter, (especially after letting of blood, if it be convenient to the patiented,) and lay him down and sweat upon the same, if the venom hath not utterly overcome the heart: he shall undoubtedly recover. It hath been lately proved, that after drinking of the same medicine, when the patiented made his water in an urinal, the glass hath burst in pieces, by reason of the venom that it purged out. This is the making of the said Electuary. Take cinnamon elect one ounce, Terra sigillata, six drams, five Myrrh, three drams, Unycornes horn, one dram, the seed & rind of Cytron, roots of Dyptanny, Burnet, Turmentyl, Zedoary, read Coral, of each two drams, yellow Saunders, four scruples, read Saunders, two scruples, white Been and read, flowers of Marygooldes, of each one dram, ivory razed, Scabius, Veroincitunici, seed of basil, the bone of a Stag's heart, Saffron, of each two scruples: make a sign powder, and ad unto it, of bull armoniac preparate, two ounces, white sugar three pound, and with a syrup of Acetositate citri: make a goodly Electuary, and keep it in a glass. If the Pestilence cometh with great excess of heat, drink it in Rose water & Vinegar: but if you feel it cold, take it in a draft of Wine, and cover you with clothes, so that you may sweat as long as is possible: for without doubt it is a present remedy, as I myself have now of late proved. Thus much Thomas Phayre in his treatise of the Pestilence.  
THe teeth of a mad Dog, that hath bitten a man or woman, tied in leather, and then hanged at the shoulder: doth preserve and keep the party that bears it from being bitten of any mad Dog. Diascorides, by the report of Mizaldus.  
THe Seeds of Carduus Benedictus stamped, and drunk, doth help the grief, pains, prickings, and stitches of the side: and the griping in the guts, and the lower part of the belly. This is proved for truth.  
IF any doth sprinkle his head, with the powder of the skin that a Snake doth cast off: gotten or gathered when the Moon is in the full, being also in the first part of Aries, the Ram: he shall see terrible and fearful dreams. And if he shall have it under the plant of his foot, he shall be acceptable before Magistrates and Princes. Cardanus.  
Whosoever begins their journey, in the hour of Venus: he shall have good and profit on the behalf of Women, or some such like thing. Haly Abenragell.  
IF Worms gnaw upon, or hurt the mouth of the stomach: put Honey combs into the mouth fasting, and hold them there: and the Worms will draw unto the Honey, and so void by the mouth. It hath been proved.  
IN the first beginning of any sickness, or at the time of any question for the sick: if the Moon be oriental, nigh to the Sun within twelve degrees: it is sign of death, and the nearer to the Sun, and in Combusyon, the worse. johannes Ganivetus.  
WIth this Secret following, Benedictus victorius, had always good success, in passions and griefs of the heart. Take of the juice of bugloss, cleansed or putrefied at the fire two ounces, of white Sugar two drams, mix them together, and let the patient (or diseased party) drink it every night going to bed: and there will not ten days pass, but the patient will be cured of the passion or grief of the heart.  
THis following is a notable tried medicine for the gout, and for the swelling of joints, & for knobs or knots coming of the French pocks. Take May butter a quarter of a pound, half a pound of coomyn seed, beaten in fine powder, a quarter of a pound of black Soap, one handful of Herb grace, half a handful of clarified sheep suet: stamp all these together in a mortar, then take the gall of an Ox, and a spoonful of bay Salt, and fry them all together, till it be thick: then lay it on a woollen cloth, and so apply it to the ache, as hot as it may be suffered, and let it lie unremoved a whole week: and then lay another plaster thereof to it, and let it lie unremoved as long: then lay the third plaster thereto, and let it lie thereto as long, as the other, (which will be in the whole three weeks:) and without doubt it will help him. I have seen it proved. This I had out of a very old book.  
THere be (and truly with proved success) that do hung the roots of Sorrel, at their necks, for the Swine pocks: and also in like case, of Planten. Mizaldus.  
Whosoever hath the bloody flyx, (be it never so great nor grievous:) let them drink the wine, wherein the roots of Hollyocks cut in pieces, is sodden and strained, (if the party have an ague:) for then let the roots be sod in water with some Planten leaves, and so strained, which is an approved & sure medicine for that disease: whether the party have an ague or not.  
A Ring made of an Ox, or cows horn, & worn or carried upon them that have the cramp: It puts the same away. This is proved to be true of many. And Mizaldus affirms it.  
IF the Lord of the seventh house, be in the third or ninth house, and any evil Planet behold him: (he that is then borne will fall from some building, or else he will die of some thing that shall fall upon him. Ptolomeus.  
IF you seeth bryony in water, and use to drink the same: It helps and cureth them that have the Dropsy. Proved.  
marvelous and notable virtues of the Eybright, do follow. Let the leaves, stalks, and flowers, with the whole substance, be distilled, when it beareth flowers, the water whereof stilled, dropped, and streaked about the eyes, causeth clear eyes, & sharpeneth the sight, and seizeth the pains of the eyes. The water dropped into the eyes an hour before night, and striked about them, and drunk to the quantity of three ounces at one time: comforteth, strengtheneth, and preserveth the sight, especially, in aged persons, and in stematick complexions. The herb dried, and brought to powder, & eaten every day in a po●ched Egrere, for a certain time together: restoreth sight lost, the water mixed with half a dram of the powder, and drunk every evening, for a month or forty days together: recovereth a weak sight.  
THis precious medicine following, will bring forth a Canker, and pluck it up by the roots, out of any sore where 〈◊〉 be, either in man or woman. Take Bos●alger, and make powder thereof: then take B●rrowes, or Hogs grease, that is new and fresh, (first melted and a●ter cold) then my●e the powder there with very well: then put thereof upon a piece of white leather, which may cover the ●ore: them sprinkle on the said plaster, fine flower of pure wheat: then upon the same spread Honey, and then put upon the said Honey, woman's milk: and wh●n all this is done, put the said plaster upon the sore, where the canker is, and put the neither crust of a new white loa●e upon the said plaster, and tie it fast upon the same, that it remove ●●t: And in the morning, thou shall find the canker dead, on the said plaster: this is most true. This I coppyed out of an old written Book.  
LEt a woman make water, in an Urinal that is ●ayre and clean, or rather new, upon certain corns of Barley: and set the same in a cold place for the space of eight days, and if t●e said Barley corns will grow again, or bring forth new corn: then the fault is not in the woman that she conceives not, but rather in the man. If otherwise, than the let of conception is in her.  
Stamp Crystal in a stone mortar of Marble, and make thereof a very fine powder, than put thereto so much of the white of an egg that you may writ therewith, mixed them well together with a little goome or goome water, then writ therewith in paper what you will, then rub the same Letters with what metal you will: and the writing will be of the colour of that metal wherewith you rubbed them. This I had out of an old book and Mizaldus affirms it without the Goome water.  
THe juice of lily Roots, and Uynegar, of either like much mixed together, and the sawse flame or red pympled face anointed therewith every evening for the space of nine or ten days: doth help it perfectly.  
YOu shall know whether the dropsy be hot or cold, by this that followeth: If the swelling begin first at the feet, and go upward, than it comes of a hot cause: If the swelling begin first in the face, and go downward, than it comes of a cold cause. This likewise I had out of an old written Book wherein were many things credible.  
CAst the water of any sick person newly made at night, on read nettles, & if the nettles be withered or dead in the morning after: then the sick party is like to die of that disease, if they be green still: then he is like to live.  
A Certain wicked fellow that killed his Father, did sit in company with his companions, eating & drinking: over whose heads, there was a swallows nest, with young swallows in the same: at which time the said swallows made a great noise, & chittering: when, suddenly the said wicked fellow, got a long poll, & burst the swallows nest: whereby the swallows fell down, & he trod on them, and crushed them in pieces. Being asked of one of them, why he did so: I have good cause so to do, said he: for did you not hear, said he, how they told that I killed my Father. Whereupon he was suspected, examined, and so confessed, and therefore executed. Plutarch.  
Dry a Goats, Sheep's, or neats blather, & make powder thereof, & let them drink thereof with Vinegar or water, when they go to bed, that cannot hold their water: and it will help them. Galen affirms this.  
IF the Sun, the Moon, the Alumten, or the Lord of the Ascendent, be all safe, and not with the Lord of the eight house, or in his aspect: without doubt the sick person shallbe rid of his diseases, and recover the same. If two of them be so, he is like to escape likewise. If contrary, than he is like to die thereof. jatromathematica. M. Guat. riff.  
TO kill Serpents in your dream, signifies victory: to see sails of ships, is evil: to dream that all your teeth are bloody, it signifies the death of the dreamer: but, that the teeth is drawn out, signifies the death of another: that birds enters into a house, signifies loss: to weep, betokens joy: to handle money, signifies anger: to see dead horses, signifies a lucky event of things. Artemidorus.  
YOu shall make a Sword, Knife, or any other Instrument, to have an excellent edge: if you do as followeth. Put into a pound of the urine of a young Man, as much soot as you may take in your hand, putting thereto four ounces of the oil of Lynne seed: All being mixed together, let them seeth on the fire, & between the beating, or striking of the sword or the knife whiles it is read or burning hot, quench it in this mixture: and according to art, let it be well tempered. Mizaldus.  
IF you stamp lupines (which are to be had at the Apothecaries,) and therewith rub round about the bottom or lower part of any tree: no Ants, or Pyssemyres, will go up and touch the same Tree. Mizaldus.  
IF Mercury (being Lord of the sixth house) be impedyte of Saturn, doth threa●●n to the child then borne, continual blindness: and so much the more, if the Moon behold the Sun and Saturn in that sort. Taisnier.  
RUb the leaf of a Marygoold between your fingers, and put the same into your nose, and let it stay there a pretty while: and it will bring forth abundance of humours out of your head, and it will help the rewine, within a little while if you use it. This I had of a friend as an excellent secret.  
THe eating of two drams of great Reasons (the Stones taken out) in the morning fasting, doth profit for concerning of youth: because they make better digestion, and phlegm is dymynished by them, they comfort the Liver, and makes it fat, because they are friends of the stomach, and of the Liver, and they increase blood, and makes it thick, and when they are taken after meat, they strengthen and moistens the belly. johannes Gan●uctus.  
THe eyes be not only instruments of Enchantment, but also the voice and evil tongues of certain persons. For there are found in Africa, as Gellius saith: Families of men, that if they chance exceedingly to praise, fair Trees, pure seeds, goodly children, excellent horses, fair and well liking cattle: soon after they will wither and pine away, & so die. (No cause or hurt known of their withering or death.) Thereupon the custom came, that when any do praise any thing, that we should say God bless it or keep it. Aristot. in Probl. By the report of Mizaldus.  
STop both your ears with your fingers, and the hiccup will go away within a while after. Proved.  
MAny that are borne at that time, when the earth doth quake, are always fearful: in the time of thunder, they are for the most part saint & fearful: in the time of the change of the Moon, either they live not long, or else they be weak: And oftentimes as Aristotle saith, have Melancholic diseases, or else are out of measure Melancholic: which makes them to be wayward, ●reating, & seldom merry. Mizaldus.  
THere is a marvelous strength in Sperma ceti, for if it be pure & right: it will penetrate & go through the boxes or things wherein it is kept, with a certain moisture or sweeting drops. Mizaldus.  
IF Mercury be conjunct with Saturn, or in any evil aspect of him, & neither jupiter nor any other good Planet doth behold Mercury. it doth note, that they then borne, shall have an impediment in their tongue, or shall stut: chief, if he be found above the earth. Taisnier.  
THe roots of Eldern sod and strained, & drunk thirty days together, thrice every day, at morning, noon, and night: doth cure the dropsy perfectly. Proved.  
IF the paps of a woman, which is with child of two, do wax little, she shall loose one of them: and if it be the right pap, it is a man child that will be lost: and if it be the jest, a woman child. Hypocrates in Aphor.  
TAke Garlyck, and Houslyck, of each like much, & stamp them both together, and plaster the same either to a hot or cold gout: and it will help or ease it marvelously. This was reported to me to be excellent therefore.  
THe Flower of ointments, called Flos unguentorum, is made as followeth. Take of Rosen, and Perrosy●, of each half a pound, Virgin wax, and Olybanum, of either a quarter of a pound, Mastic one ounce, Hearts tallow, or else sheeps tallow, a quarter of a pound, Camphor two drams: make your gooms in fine powder, and searce them: then melt the wax and tallow, and mix the powders there with well, and boil them well together, then strain it through a canvas bag into a pottle of white Wine: then let it keel until it be blood warm, than put thereto the Camphor, and a quarter of a pound of Turpentyne, by little and little, evermore stirring it well, till it be through cold: Then make it up in rolls, & keep it to your use, for the best salve for all things following, that ever was made, by the sufferance of God. Wherefore esteem of this salve above any other, for it hath been put in experience and substantially proved: It heals wounds, old & new, it cleanseth very well, and gathereth good flesh: It healeth head ache, & impostume in the head, or in the body: Swollen ears or cheeks, sawsfleame in the face, Sinews cut, stark or sprayned in travel: It draws out iron and thorn: it helps venomous biting and pricking: it heals all manner of botch: all swelling and ache in the cods, and all other members: it seizes the flux of the emrod's, and it is special good to make a sear cloth, for all manner of griefs. This was written and cast into the Recluse or Anchor, at the Read hill in Almain: wherewith he wrought many marvels, and never used any other medicine but this. This I copied out of a very old book: and I have proved it many times to be precious.  
WHen the Alumten, or the Lord of the Ascendent is Infortunate, in his fall or combust with three other testimonies, or else two: It signifies that the sick person shall die. And it is so much the worse, if he be under the beams of the Sun. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Whosoever hath the grief or swelling of the spleen never so much, & hath had it of a long time: and doth heat the ends of a pair of tongues in the fire, until they be glowing and read hot, and then quencheth the same in half a pint of white Wine, & drink the same Wine: It will help them thereof perfectly. This was credibly told me for very truth. But it is more certain, if they be so heated and quenched five or six times, and then drunk: and to take the same four or five mornings together. Which I know to be excellent: the like unto this is affyrmde to be most true, and proved by Anth. Benevenius.  
IT is a great token of health, when the stones or cods begins to itch: though the other parts of the body be weak. But then take heed of Uenerius acts, lest you pay for your pleasure. This out of Mizaldus.  
COryander seed made in powder, and mixed with Honey, and unplastred upon a Carbuncle, or other grievous biles: destroys the same quite. Arnold. de villa nova.  
THe black Sea coal, mixed with oil: will be made soft. Wherewith if one anoint vines, it will destroy the worms: which destroys or eats the buds of the vines. Severinus Gebelius.  
THe goom of a Cherry tree dissolved in white wine, and so given to them that are grieved with the stone: it will help them marvelously. Mizaldus' affyrmes that it is certainly proved.  
IT was credibly told me for a very truth, that there was a very poor woman, being brought to bed of a child, having many children before, to whom a sister of hers (being rich, and that never as yet had any child) came to see her: who said unto her as followeth. Ah sister sister, here are many mouths and little meat. To whom her poor sister answered, content yourself sister: God never sends mouth, but he sendeth meat. After it chanced the rich sister to be with child: which, when it was borne, had never a mouth. So that, there was much meat, & no mouth. A worthy & rare example to make all covetous greedy & careful worldlings to cast their whole care on the Lord. And not so to depend on their own provision or worldly wealth. If it were not for the great goodness of God, we should have no more meat for our mouths, than this woman's child had a mouth for meat. But if we have both mouths and meat, and lack good stomachs for the same: what are we the near? So that both mouth meat and stomach, are not in our wills to have when welyst: but are God's gifts to bestow as he will.  
HErmes saith, (if in the Nativity of the Husband,) Venus be Combust: the wife shall die before the husband. If in the Nativity of the wife, Mars be Combust: the husband shall die before the wife.  
WAter or wine wherein Walwoort is sod (if a good draft thereof be drunk every day first and last, for the space of twenty days at the most,) doth perfectly help them that have the dropsy. It is an excellent medicine for the same.  
CAst or instyl certain drops of Balm into clear water, and then with a stick labour well the water, and if the water then be troubled, the balm is not perfect. But if the water abide clear: then the same is good and perfect balm. For the good and true balm, doth gather itself, always into one place. And thus you may try a true & good balm: from a false, and sofysticate balm.  
IF the root of Pyony (especially, of the male Pyony) be hanged at the neck of a child or a boy, that hath the falling sickness: it doth help very much. Likewise, doth Pellyter, and the hair of a Dog that is all black. Lemnius.  
FINIS. Lib. 4.   

❧ The fifth Book of Notable things.  
A Mare will bring forth a fool of divers colours: if she be covered with a cloth of divers colours, whiles she is taking the Horse. For such colours as be before the eyes of of the Horse, whiles he doth horse her: without doubt the fool will be of the same colours. The same may be proved with Dogs and other Beasts. Mizaldus.  
THe berries of Halicacabus (called winter Cherries) being stamped, and the juice, priest or wrong out of the same, and then dried in the shadow: the same, (if it be given to such as have the stone, or cannot make water, and also to them that have the Dropsy,) it will provoke urine, or drive forth the water, and also expel the hydropical humours. Mizaldus.  
HOrus Apollo doth say, that a Wolf doth fear greatly stones: therefore when he is constrained, to go by stony places, he treads very demurely or softly. For being hurt with a very little stroke of a stone: it breeds worms, whereof at length he is consumed, or brought to his death. Therefore he doth fly from a traveller: that lays wait to strike him with stones.  
IF the Moon and Venus be joined together, and both be Combust: He that is then borne, shall lack a wife, (or never marry.) Ptolomeus.  
IF the leaves of Eldern, first made hot between two tile stones, and then applied hot to the forehead and the temples, if any painelye there: It helpeth the ache of the head marvelously. This is very good and well proved.  
HEre followeth a marvelous water to provoke sleep. Take of Opium thebaicum, and Garlic heads pilled, of each two ounces: beat the Garlic heads in a mortar with a wooden pestle, & put thereto the Opium grinded: incorporate these well together: that it may be like a Sauce: distill this in a Retort, with a most soft & slow fire in ashes. With this water distilled when need shall require, anoint the temples, the forehead, and pulses of the wrists. And beware you minister nor use this, but upon a great necessity, as in frantic persons, (as you shall think it good.)  
THe juice of the buds, leaves, inner rind, or of the young branches of Eldern, (something warm) put into the ear: doth not only break the impostume thereof, within sour or five times: but also doth marvelously help the deafness. This was told me for a great secret: and I have tried it to be an excellent thing in such a case.  
TO see Monks in one's dream, doth portend death or calamity: to see fat Oxen, betokens plenty of things: to lose an eye or a tooth, signifies the death of a friend, or of a kinsman, or some other evil luck: to dream to be dumb, foreshows speedy gladness: to see Oxen plough, betokens gain: to enter into waters, betokens evil. Artemidorus.  
THis following makes a soft beard, and doth beautify the chin with a fine hair. Take butter witstout salt, the juice of a red Onion, the grease of a Grey or a Badger, the root of Bryony, of Beets, of Radysh, and of white lilies: whereof make a Lynyment, and anoint the chin often therewith, being shaven. Mizaldus.  
PUt up an old Gander into a house, and let him be there three days without meat, then cast unto him pieces of an Eel newly killed, then gather the dung that comes from him, after he hath eaten the pieces of the Eel: which dung being laid to any impostume or swelling: Is a present remedy therefore.  
HE that sleepeth in a sheeps skin: shall see true dreams, or dream of things that be true. Mizaldus.  
THe brain of a weasel dried, and drunk with vinegar: doth help them that have the falling sickness. Mizaldus.  
IVpiter and Venus, or the one of them in the eight house, not Combust, nor Retrograde: doth signify the child then borne, shall die a natural, (and no violent death.) Taisnier.  
TAke a little stick, and tie about the end thereof old Oaken leaves, then cut them something round, and hold the same leaves in your mouth as deep and as far in as you may suffer it well, (holding the stick between your teeth,) & so hold your mouth over a porringer or a dish: and there will great abundance of humours avoid out of your mouth: and within a while, wash in fair water the said leaves on the stick: and then hold it in your mouth so again. Do thus for the space of half an hour, and use this three or four times a day, for three or four days together: or until you have avoided as much watery humours as you think good. This is the best and the presentest remedy for helping of the rheum, that ever I knew, or heard of. I had it of a Gentleman, that esteemed it as a Treasure. And whosoever proves it, shall find it an excellent thing.  
MIrabolanes chebuli, preserved with his syrruppe, used daily, and eaten: preserveth youth excellently well.  
THis following is an excellent Gargarism, to purge the head and the breast. Take of Stavesacre, three drams, Pellyter of Spain, and mustard seed, of either two drams, long Pepper, ginger, and A●lomgem, of each one dram: Make powder of them that are to be powdered, and stamp the rest, & mix all well together, and put as much thereof as a bean in a little linen cloth, and tie the same fast with a thread, that it may be round: then hold the same in your mouth, & champ it softly between your teeth: and it will bring forth water and phlegm abundantly. Use this daily until you think your head be well purged.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house, received of the Lord of the eight house, so that he receive not the Lord of the eight house: It signifies that the sick party shall escape, without all hope. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
EArth worms slit, and cleansed, and washed from their slimy and earthy matter (half a dozen of them, at the lest) and cut in pieces or chopped, and a good mess of pottage made thereof with oatmeal and water, and so much every day eaten by them that have the black jaundice, for the space of twelve days or longer: no doubt it will perfectly cure them thereof, though it be never so long rooted, or thought to be past cure. Or else a spoonful of the powder made of them in March, or any other time, when you can get than, taken every day so long in a little draft of any drink: doth likewise perfectly cure the same. This is very true, and hath been often times proved. It hath helped some in four or five days.  
OL●banum (which is a kind of Frankincense) in powder mixed with as much of Swine's grease, and boiled together, wherewith if children's heads that are full of Lice, or that are given to breed lice, be anointed: they shall afterwards be free from Lice. This is better and more safe, then to use ointments mixed with quicksilver, which is very dangerous: therefore let Mothers or Nurses', rather use this.  
WHereas every Beast (the act of generation ended or done) is wont to be sad: only the Cock rejoiceth, for he showeth his gladness then by crowing.  
IF Mars be in the eight house, & in a humane sign, or in the second face of Taurus, or in the first face of Leo: It doth show the child then borne, shall die of iron. Taisnier.  
IT is proved by experience, that to use customably in the dinner, and immediately before the Supper, half an ounce of the flower of Cassia newly drawn: doth forbid the engendering of the impostumation of the stomach. Truly I say unto thee, that who doth use, such taking of Cassia, shall be preserved from every evil affection of the stomach. Emperica bened.  
WIne of the decoction of tormentil, drunk daily without any other drink, and the herb thereof sodden, and every evening plastred over the eyes, the space of three or four months or more: restoreth the sight, yea, to those that have their eyes as though they did see, and yet are blind, and sees nothing at all. Petrus Hispanus.  
Andrea's Mattheolus, knew a Woman, that every day for a whole years space, was grievously troubled with the pains of the mother, which was helped very well of that disease, by drinking once a week at her going to bed, o● white Wine, wherein an ounce of the root of Bryony was heated: and she using this medicine a whole year in such sort, she felt no more harm thereof.  
IF you will destroy or put away Warts, cut of the head of a quick Eel, and rub the Warts all over well with the same blood, then as it runs from the Eel: then bury the head of the said Eel deep in the ground, and when the head is rotten, than they will fall away. I think the Author hereof is johannes Baptista Porta. Mizaldus.  
ABout the rising of the little Dog, (being in the Summer:) an old Cock doth lay an Egg, round, speckled, and of divers colours: where of many do think that the Basylike, or Cockatryse doth come, (which is a most pernicious and venomous serpent,) especially: if that egg be sit upon and hatched by a Toad. Which whether it be a fable or not, let other judge. Mizaldus.  
MArs in the eight house, with the head of the Dragon: betokens that the child then borne, shall die of a rope, (or be hanged.) Taisnier.  
THe juice of Colewoorts, put or snuffed into the nosthrylles: doth purge the head marvelous well, and helps the ancient pain of the head. Often proved.  
Black sieges like to filthy blood, are wonderful evil. Whether they be with an ague, or without an ague. And the darker colour they have, the worse they be: but if these signs come through a Purgation, they be more laudable. And although they be of divers colours, they be not evil. Hypocrates.  
THis following is an excellent, and often proved thing for the colic, Strangury, and the stone. Take the seeds of Careaway, Fennell seed, Spicknarde, Anne's seed, Coomyn seed, cinnamon, and galingale: of each half an ounce, Gromell seed, and Lycores, of either of them an ounce, and beat them all to powder, and drink half a spoonful of the same powder in Ale, a little warmed, and walk up and down one hour after, before you eat or drink any other thing. Do thus five or six days together at the lest, and you shall find it of a notable operation. This was taken out of a learned practysers' book: besides since it hath been many times proved.  
YOung Children, whose gums are anointed with the brain of an Hare, do breed their teeth easylie. Mizaldus. And it hath been proved with the brain of a Conie.  
A Walnutte put fast into a chicken, that it fall not out in the roasting thereof: It makes that the same chicken will be the sooner roasted. Mizaldus.  
IF a round large vessel, with one hole in the top thereof, be filled full with quick lime and Brimstone, of both equal portions: and then the hole well stopped, that no air nor any thing may go out, and so put into some standing water, or a little pit of water, or into some cistern full of water: it will keep the said water hot a long time, or for many days. Proved of many, saith Mizaldus. And I found the same also in an old written book.  
Hen's dung mixed with meat that is given to be eaten of mad Dogs, will take away their madness from them: (As it is thought.) Mizaldus.  
IF a Worm, that is found in the grass, before it touch the ground, be hanged alive at a woman's neck that is with child: it is thought she shall keep the child until the due time of the birth. Plinius. As Mizaldus saith.  
IF one give any thing for Warts, to them that have them, be it never so small a thing, as three or four heayrs (a rag of a linen cloth, or some other thing of no value the sooner it will rot, so much the better,) and let the party that would be rid of the warts, wrap the same in some thing, and put it into the ground, and cover the same with earth again: truly, as the same thing doth rot in the earth, so will the warts wear and consume away. This is perfectly proved.  
IF Mars be in Gemini, and the Sun in Pisces, in a quartile aspect, in the day time: or the Moon in the night time: (it doth signify that) the child then borne will be hanged. Taisnier.  
THey that use to receive three Pyls made of Aloes De succo citrino, made in powder, (which is to be had at the Apothecaries,) and mixed with the juice of Colewoorts, of the bygnes of a bean: shall never be troubled with pain in the head. Petr. Hisp.  
A Strange medicine for the gout. Take a good handful of Arsemart, and wrap and tie the same in a Burr leaf: and lay it first in old ashes, then compass the same with hot embers & coals, & so roast the same well: them apply the same roasted Arsmart to the grieved place, and do thus evening and morning for two or three days: and thou shalt find a present help thereof. This was told me for a great secret, and as a proved thing.  
IF you put or stop fast within a Nut, quick brimstone, Saltpetre, and quicksilver: the same being put into a loaf of bread, and then the same loaf of bread put into some hot place, where it may heat: as soon as it waxeth hot, you shall see the loaf of bread so leap, that it will be a very pretty sport to them that sees it. Mizaldus had this of one that proved it.  
A Most excellent oil of Saint john's wort, is made as followeth. Infuse or steep for the space of three days, the tops of Saint john's wort, in pure and excellent Wine, then in a double vessel let them 〈◊〉 easily over the fire, and then strain them easily: then again put as many of the tops of Saint john's wort in that strained liquor, as you had before: and let them steep therein three days & three nights as before: then heat & strain them as before, then add thereto three ounces of Turpentine, and two ounces of old Oil, and of Safferue the weight of xxiiii. Barley corns: mix all together, and then seeth all together in a double vessel, until the wine be consumed: and that that remains put it into a glazed or leaded vessel, & keep it safely for your use. This Oil is of a marvelous virtue and property, as well chiefly against venomous Ulcers, as many other diseases and cold griefs: Well known to many women. Mizaldus.  
IF you rub slightly any kind of Beasts or cattle, with the juice of gourds, in hot wether: no kind of Flies will then hurt or molest them, nor yet come nigh them. A thing desired of many, and very necessary for such as rides in the hot wether. Mizaldus.  
IF Mars be opposite to jupiter, and the one of them be the Lord of the eight house: (it is like) the child then borne, shall die by the commandment of the judge. Taisnier.  
THe leaves of wild ivy sod in wine, and laid upon any Canker: doth kill and heal the same. Trotula.  
THis water following is very precious for frantic and mad men: proved very often. Take of the flowers of Rosemary, of Borage, and of the roots of bugloss, of each half a pound, of Saffern two drams, of Quinces four ounces, of the best white Wine, two pints: mix them all together, and then let them stand so the space of a natural day: after that bury the glass body wherein all the same is, in horse dung for fifteen days: and then take it out and distill a water thereof, according to art, two or three times over. Keep this water as the Apple of your eye, for it is very precious and well proved in all Melancholy sicknesses very effectuously: and in the pain and trembling of the heart, the quantity to be given at one time is a dram. (Which is the weight of lxxii barley corns.) If you prove it, you will praise it. And this is in the new jewel of Health: with many other more excellent things.  
THey are not like to loose their senses, nor their understanding: in whose Nativity the Moon doth apply to Mercury, either by conjunction or by aspect. jatromath. Guat. riff. Argent.  
SEt a round glass full of water against the hot Sun, that it may stand fast: and then hold something that is very dry, and will take fire easily, nigh to the same glass, between the glass and the Sun: and it will set the same thing there holden, on fire. Which is very strange to behold. And the rather, because fire a hot and dry element, is procured out of water, a cold and moist element. johan. Baptist. Porta.  
DIdimus writeth, that Sheep are wont to follow them: that stops their ears with their wool.  
IF any doth ask thee (having knowledge in Astrology) what he did see in his dream: mark the Ascendent, when the question is made: And if thou dost find Saturn in the Ascendent (or first house,) tell him that he did see in his dream Religious persons: as Friars, hermits, or such like, or places of Prayer, etc. But if thou find Mars in the Ascendent, say that he saw in his dream, Captains, Knights, Murderers, thieves, Harness or Battles, or such like. If the Sun be in his first house: he did see Gardens, Trees, with fruits, Gold, or a King. If Venus be in the Ascendent: he did see a fair Virgin, or some eating or drinking, or one lying with a Woman, or that have things wherein they are delighted, or else to play, or to walk abroad, or white or read garments. If Mercury be in the first house: then he did see handsome & eloquent men reasoning, or Palaces decked with Curtains, and rich hangings or clothes, books or writings of salutation, or of accounts. If the Moon be in the first house: he did see rivers, or water, or precious stones, or some that did eat or drink, or his Mother, or his Awnt, or his Mother's Sister. This saith Haly Abenragel. But Messahala, and Alhayhat, and Abrier Farsal, have said: look in the sign of the ninth house from the Ascendent, and if thou dost find in the same house, any of the seven planets, judge that the vision or dream was of them, as is before, when they are found in the first house. And add to the signification of the Sun, (that is, if the Sun be in the ninth house,) that he did see himself flying between heaven and earth, or that he did see a great light: and if there be no Planets in the ninth house: then mark him that is in the first house: if none be there: then mark who is in the third house: if none be there: then look in the fourth house: if none be there: look in the seventh house: if none be there: then look in the tenth house. And judge according to the signification of every Planet: and thou shalt be certified, God willing. Haly Abenragell.  
AGainst the quarten ague, take the urine that the party makes at one time in his fit, and kneade flower therewith: and when the same is baked, then give it to a Dog of the same house. And when you have done thus thrice: the party will be whole and rid of the disease. And in his stead the Dog will be sick. But for a man that is sick, a Dog must be chosen. If a woman, a bitch must be had. This was taken out of an often proved experiment of an Italian, by the report of Mizaldus.  
Whosoever desires to see the Sun eclipsed without hurting their eyes: Let them behold the shadow thereof in a vessel, wherein oil is put: Where, they may behold and see it without danger. For a fatty humour is not easily troubled. And what shapes or forms it doth receive: It representeth the same truly. Mizaldus.  
A Lamen, or thine plate of Gold, borne on the seam of the brain, doth strengthen the brain. The same hanged against the region or place of the heart: doth help the beating of the heart, and increaseth gladness. And if it be put upon the reins of the back: it strengthens the reins, and cools the same, and ceaseth the pains of the back. But Mizaldus wisheth that the same plate be beaten and made of pure and fine Gold, when the Sun is in Leo, called the Lion: And jupiter & the Moon beholding each other happily. Hermes. Arnoldus Villa novanus. etc. Alij.  
IF the Lord of the Horoscope, be in the seventh house Combust, and the Sun hath no essential dignity in the same: then he (that is then borne,) shall perish by the hands of many, which will rise against him. But if the Sun have then any power in the seventh house: he shall die by the King's commandment. Taisnier.  
IT is proved and a secret: that if three grains of Mastic be given to the patiented to be swallowed, every night at his going to bed: it doth preserve him from the pains of the stomach, and doth cure him. Emperica benedicti victorij. I know by proof, it helps the stomach marvelously.  
THis water following, breaks the Stone in the bladder, and in the reins. Take of the juice of Saxisrage, two pints, of Gromell, and of the juice of Perceley, of either one pint, of the best vinegar of a pleasant Wine, eight ounces: distill all these together▪ and let the liquor distilled be kept in a glass with a narrow mouth: Of which minister in the morning one ounce at a time, as much at noon, and as much at evening going to bed. This is a proved water, as saith Fumanellus.  
TO dream that Eagles flies over your head: doth betoken evil fortune. To dream that you see your face in the water: signifies long life. To follow Bees: betokens gain or profit. To be married: signifies that some of your kinsfolks is dead. To dream that you worship God: signifies gladness. To look in a glass: doth portend some issue, or a child. To have oil powered upon you: signifies joy. Michael Scotus, et Artemidorus.  
IF you would have Copper to melt quickly, and run easily: put the hooves of a Horse into the same, between the melting and pouring out thereof. Mizaldus had this secret of an expert Italyan.  
goats will not stray, or wander: if you cut of their beards. Florentinus Geoponicus, and Zoroaster.  
IF you put a Toad in a new earthen pot, and the same be covered in the ground: in the mids of a corn field: it is said there will be no hurtful tempests or storms there. As Archibius did write to Antiochus' King of Syria. Plinio Authore.  
IF the Lord of the eight house, be found in the twelfth house, with an evil Planet, or in his evil Aspect: (it shows,) the child then borne will die a captive, (that is) in prison, or as one that doth fly away. Taisnier.  
Whosoever anoints their belly with this ointment following, it easeth the pain of the head, it purgeth the stomach, it comforteth the appetite, & clarifieth the eyes. Take of the juice of smallach two ounces, of the juice of Mercury, four ounces, of goose grease & Hen's grease, of either of them a pound, of Rosen two ounces, of Mastic, and Frankyncence, of either five drams, of Cassia Fistula, two drams: and put thereto juice of Walwoort, and of the inner rind of Eldern, and mix them all well together, and make thereof an ointment. This if it be well made, is a very good thing.  
THe Squyncie, or any other pain of the throat, will be helped with this following. Mark where a Swine doth rub him, and then rub your hand on the same wood, post, or stone: with which hand rub your sore or swollen throat. And as some say that have proved it: cut of a piece of the same wood, where the Swine did rub himself, and rub the swollen or grieved place therewith. But the rubbing of the Swine's neck, is the best for the neck: the leg for the leg: and so that part of the Swine, for the like part of the person grieved or diseased. This is a very true and often proved thing.  
TAke a pint of white Wine, one handful of woodbind leaves, or two or three ounces of the water of woodbind, and a quarter of a pound of the powder of Ginger, seeth them all together until they be something thick: And anoint a read pympled face therewith five or six times, and it will make it fair. This is proved.  
LVdonicus Vives doth write, that within the memory of his Ancestors, or Fathers, there was a Sepulchre or Tomb plucked up: wherein a burning Candle was found, made (as was witnessed by writing) five hundredth years before. And when it was touched or handled: by and by it was resolved into powder. johannes Langius.  
IF you would have a deep Well made, it is best to dig the same when the Sun is in the last parts of Virgo, before the Autumnal equinoctial: (which is about the beginning of September, or immediately after,) for then through the great heat, and dryness of the Summer: the earth wants rain. Mizaldus had this of one that was skilful in such things. Which was a master Carpentar.  
IF any be bitten or stricken of a Scorpion, which shall eat basil the same day: he shall be made whole thereof. Aphri. reports it.  
IF any fall sick in the hour of the Sun: he will have a strong Fever or ague. And many times shall be vexed in his mind: which will bring no small hurt unto him. Haly Abenragel.  
THe juice of Coryander, given to them that have the falling Evil to drink: will not suffer the humour to ascend into the head, and it worketh great help to the diseased. This was written in an old book.  
Whosoever is brought weak, either by some grievous sickness, or disease, of long continuance, or by wounds received, or any other way: and thereupon have a siege of Melancholy, like to black blood: he shall doubtless die the next day after. Hypocrates in suis Aphor.  
A Sausfleame or red pympled face, is helped with this medicine following. Take Enula Campana, four ounces, and seeth it with vinegar, till the vinegar be sodden in: then stamp it small, and then put thereto quicksilver and brimstone, of either four drams, and Barrowes grease, four ounces: & beat them all together, and make thereof a plaster, and lay it to the enfected or spotted place in the face, all night: and on the morrow wash it of with warm water. Do thus six or seven nights, and it will help it without doubt.  
THe first seeds, that the He, or Male Pyony brings forth (being round and black,) do marvelously recreate or help them that have the falling sickness: If some thereof be stamped and taken with oxymel scillitick, which is to be had at the Apothecaries: and with the syrup of Sticados, & a little Nutmug: which Lemnius doth witness for a very truth.  
Whosoever is stricken or hurt of any venomous worm, or other thing: or else bitten of a mad Dog. Let them take heed diligently that the same thing that did hurt them, see them not, until they be perfectly whole. For the Hebrew Physicians say, that the party hurt, shall then die, or else be in peril afresh: yea though they begin to wax whole when they see them. Mizaldus.  
ONe handful of basil, with ten sea Crabs, stamped or beaten together: doth make all the Scorpions to come to that place, that are nigh to the same. Aphri. as Mizaldus saith.  
IF the Lord of the eight house, be afflicted in the fourth house, (it signifies,) the child then borne, shall die in prison. Taisnier.  
WIne wherein the rind of an Ash tree hath been sodden, drunk fasting, six or seven mornings together: doth perfectly help them that are tormented with the pains of the spleen. (Which makes one to have a great pain in the left side, & there most grief is after meat.) And if you anoint the grieved place so long with an ointment called Deathea, every morning and evening. It is an excellent thing likewise.  
Behold a singular Oil or Balm drawn out of wax and Turpentine, which drieth and mightily pierceth where the same is applied: taken out of the secrets of Fallopius. Take of the purest and clearest Turpentine that can be gotten, one pound and two ounces, of new yellow wax that is odoriferous, twelve ounces, of Nutmugges and Cloves, of either one ounce, of common ashes, six ounces: beat all these well together, then put the same into a Retort, fenced with Lute of Wisdom, and set in ashes, and distill it with a slow fire at the first, and after increase the fire until all be distilled: which gathered, distill the second time in a glass body with an head & receiver, putting unto it before the distilling four ounces of the powder of brick or Tiles. Which dyllygently luted in the joints, maintain fire under it, until no more will come, then have you purchased an Oil of a rubyne colour, which worketh miracles in wounds, especially: where synnues be harmed. This also helpeth any manner of rheum proceeded of a cold cause, it helpeth besides the cough, by anointing the region of the breast therewith: and it is also of great importance unto many other griefs, invented and proved by the above said Author many times. This excellent oil I had out of that worthy Book, called the new jewel of Health: which many perhaps should never have read in this my book, that never shall hear tell of that which makes me describe herein some notable things therein uttered.  
A Notable and often proved plaster, to destroy any impostume, swelling, and stitch, in what place of the body soever it be: is now described as followeth. Take of the root of Hollyocke, (clean washed and cut in pieces,) two good handful, and seeth the same in fair water, until the said root be something tender. Then take out the said root, and put into the same water, of Fenecreeke, and Lyn seed, of either one handful, (something stamped or bruised,) & seeth them together until the water be ropeing like byrdlime: then stamp the said root of Hollyock before sod. And put it thereto with an handful of Barley meal, and fry them together with Boar's grease, or Barrowes grease: (and if need be, you may take sheep suet,) then lay a plaster thereof to the sore, or grieved place, as hot as the party may suffer it: and let the same lie twelve hours unremoved at the lest, and after apply another plaster of the same thereto, in such order: and within nine plasters it will work the full effect. It hath helped & dissolved the Pluresy, with the applying of three or four plasters. A thing of small cost, and great virtue.  
WHen the Lord of the Ascendent is impedite or Infortunate of the Lord of the second house: It signifies that the sick shall not be healed, but with great expenses of money, or else die. And universally, mark what Planet doth Infortunate the Lord of the Ascendent. The sick is like to have harm or hindrance by such things, as that house doth signify, whereof that Infortunating Planet is Lord, or Sygnifyer. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
Egg shells dried and beaten to powder, and given in white Wine: breaketh the stone. It is a tried medicine, as one affirmed to me.  
SUgar (especially, Ualencia sugar,) made in powder, and put into a wound or cut: doth not only cleanse all corruption from it, and consumes all superfluous flesh or matter in it: but also heals it marvelously. If you list you may mix a little fresh butter therewith: whereby it will not be of the less virtue. This is a sure, excellent, easy, and a ready medicine: who list to try it, shall find it a singular thing.  
A Certain Wench was borne within sixteen miles of London: who within a year and a half after her birth, did begin to eat earth, stones, brick, and gravel. And so continued therein, (having all her delight in eating of such baggage:) also she did eat the woollen sleeves that were on her arms, besides that she did eat a glove. And on a time as her mother did feed her with milk: there chanced to fall a great piece of soot out of the chimney, into the said milk: which soot, the said child took out of the dish with her fingers, and did eat it most greedily. She abhorred then bread & butter, and other such natural food. Whereby she was marvelously consumed with a flux, and she yet liveth, having nothing on her but skin and bone. I saw her in june. 1577. She was borne in Chayrsey, within two or three miles of Stanes, at which time she was full three years of age.  
IT is said that Myse dung, with the ashes of burned Wasps, and of hazel Nuts, and a little vinegar of Roses put thereto: doth trimly deck a bald place with heayrs: if the same place be often times rubbed or anointed therewith. Mizaldus.  
IF any Beast of the female kind, doth piss upon the urine of a Wolf newly made: the same Beast shall never conceive. Pythagoras.  
AEtius gives counsel, that that Dog be buried or put into the ground in any wise, which is dead by taking his disease from a man: for it is certain, (saith he,) that dangerous and many effects, (the man being escaped,) are turned, or ouerpowred into him.  
THe troublesome, or unpleasant noise of Frogs in the night, will cease: if you set a Candle burning on the bank side nigh the water where they be. Or else many lights, according to the greatness of the place where they be. Africanus Geopon. And this was proved at Paris, by the means of a president there, that therewith was troubled. Mizaldus.  
IT is the opinion of many, that an herb (called Leucacanthus,) that is Whit thorn: (even as the bay tree,) is never strucken nor touched with lightning, nor is not touched with any evil from heaven. Mizaldus.  
ZAel saith, that he hath proved in many Nativities, where the Moon is in Virgo, opposite with the Sun: that the child then borne, hath been drowned.  
Six cloves of garlic, stamped and strained into a draft of Rhenish Wine, & so drunk: is a present remedy for the collyck, stone, & the strangury. An excellent tried medicine: if you take it three days.  
MAke powder of the flowers of Eldern, gathered on midsummer day, being before well dried, and use a spoonful thereof in a good draft of Borage water, morning & evening, first and last, for the space of a month: and it will make you seem young a great while. This I had out of an old written book, as proved.  
TAke Horseleeches, and burn them to powder, and mix it with easel, then use to rub the place therewith, where you would have hair to grow no more: and there will no hair grow in that place. This was a secret of a notable Practyser.  
Whosoever uses to drink butter milk, they will be larative, although they be very much bound, and can not go to the stoo●e. Proved.  
THey are like to have the falling sickness, in whose nativities the Moon and Mercury do not behold the one the other. Or where neither of them do behold the Ascendent: and whereas in the day time Saturn is the sygnifyer of the qualities of the mind: and being then in an Angle, and Mars in nativities of the night.  
THat young Beasts be not hurt of their fetters, or that being hurt of them, they may be cured: Tie unto their necks a Date stone bored through. Mizaldus.  
IF you give to them that have the falling sickness, this medicine or Antidote following three days, whiles the Moon is conjunct to jupiter: it will help him. Take of Mase, the seeds of Pyony & the roots of the same, half a dram, the leaves of Gelyvors, and of Prymroses, (which some takes to be the daisy) one dram: stamp them, and give it to drink with white Wine. (The party being fasting.) Mizaldus.  
AS a certain country man, did sleep open mouthed in the fields: a Serpent crept in at his mouth, and so into his body: but after the said man cured himself thereof, with the eating of Garlic. But he enfected his wife with poison: by having to do with her carnally: whereof she died, which was very rare and strange. Volateranus.  
POwder made of the stone of a Swallow, given in drink to them that have the falling sickness: healeth them without doubt, for it is a sure experiment. Petrus Hispanus.  
IF thou would know whether a Woman be conceived with child, or not: give to her two spoonfuls of water, and one spoonful of clarified Honey, mingled together to drink, when she goeth to sleep: and if she feel gripings and pains in her belly in the night, she is with child: if she feel none, she is not. This is very true and often proved.  
HE will never be poor, of whose Nativity jupiter is ruler, or Lord. Celi enarrant: The Author of which work is unknown.  
THis following will take spots out of the face, and beautify the same. Put seven whole Eggs, in most pure and strong Vinegar, and let them lie therein so long, until their shells be as soft as their inward skins: and mix thereto four ounces of mustard seed, before made in powder (or stamped:) then stamp or grind them together, and therewith let the face be often anointed. This hath been proved: and Trotula affirms it also for the like purpose.  
Green nettles laid in the urine of one that is sick, and so stieped therein for the space of xxiiii hours: if after the same time they be taken out green and fresh: it betokens that the sick party will recover of that sickness: if they be withered: it is a great token of death. Mizaldus.  
FINIS. Lib. 5.   

❧ The sixth Book of Notable things.  
IF you would have any Beast, or any part of the same, (of what colour soever he be) to be turned into white, shave of the heairs, & smoke the same that is shaven, with the fume of Brimstone: and white heayres will grow there. You may prove the same in flowers. Mizaldus.  
THe berries of Whit thorn, taken with white Wine: is of great force, for destroying or expelling of the stone. It is known by the practice or experience of the country men. Mizaldus.  
(IN a question of a vision, or dream:) mark the Lord, or the Alumten of the Ascendent, and the Moon, and consider if thou findest either of them in the ninth, or the third house: but if you find none of them there, then mark, if you find either of them in the Ascendent or first house, or in any of his Angles: and if you so find either of them, and the same be separate from a good Planet, & applied to a good Planet: It signifies that the dream is good & pleasant, and of a good sygnifycation, and is of the condition of that good Planet, to whom he applies: and the profit or commodity of his dream, shallbe of the condition of the house where he is in the figure, and of the condition of the house which he doth behold with a good Aspect. But if he be separate from an evil Planet, and applies also to an evil Planet: Then the vision or dream, is evil & to be feared, and is of an evil signification. Which evil & harm shall be, according to the nature of the Planet, to whom the same applies, and according to the nature of the house wherein he is in the figure, & according to the nature of that evil Planet. But if he be separate from a good Planet, and applies to an evil Planet: say that the vision or dream was good and pleasant, but he hath an evil signification. But if he be separate from an evil Planet, and doth apply to a good Planet: say that the vision or dream was fowl & evil, but it hath a good sygnifycation, and the profit or success thereof, will be according to the nature of the Planet, to whom he doth apply, and according to the nature of the house wherein he is, in the figure. (As we have said.) Therefore according to this way and rule, consider the visions or dreams: and confer one to another, & thou shalt be certified, (God willing.) Haly Abenra.  
IT is proved, and a secret: that if you give to them that have the hiccup, every morning three hours before meat, one root of green Gynger, and immediately after drinking two draughts of Malmsey: you shall see that he will be soon cured. Emperici benedicti victorij.  
AS word wherewith a man is killed, the blood being clean wypt from it, & put into a hot fire, which being taken out of the same, doth manifestly show the murder, for so far as the sword was in the wounded person: so far it will be of a contrary colour to the sword. It was told me that a Bishop did try it to be true, by one of his men.  
IF the blood of a Cock be dried, and made in powder, and mixed in Wine, wherein there is water: it makes the water swim above. This was of the relation of a learned monk. Mizaldus.  
PLanteyn hath a marvelous virtue, to deliver them of the Plague, that are infected therewith: given any manner of way. Proved.  
THe more lively and quick that a Horse is, the more deeper he will thrust his nose into the water, when he drinks. Plinius.  
Swine and Elephants do hate white garments, Bulls and Oxen hates marvelously garments that be of purple colour: which many under such apparel have some times proved to their great grief. Plinius.  
IF the Lord of the eight house, be in the eight house, or behold the same happily: the child then borne will die in his country, or nigh the same. Taisnier.  
THe white of an Egg, and the juice of Perytory of the wall, well beaten together and scummed, and then one drop of that liquor put into the eye: doth heal the web in the eye. This is true, and proved.  
A Proved Oil which is very good for the dropsy, called Ascites, if all the belly or paunch be anointed therewith. Take of Turpentine one pound, of frankincense, Mastic, Myrrh, of each two drams, Landanum, one dram, Nutmugs, Cloves, Galenga, Zedoary, of each one dram and a half, of the juice of Walwoort, and the juice of Cucumber, (called Cucumis asinimus) of either one ounce: Let them be powdered that are to be powdered, and let them be all mixed together, & put them in a Lymbeck, and let an Oil be distilled thereof, and it is a most secret thing, not only to take away the swelling of the belly in the dropsy, called Ascites: but also any phlegmatic swelling of any other member of man's body, & it is marvelous for the pains of joints and members, of a cold cause. Emperica benedicti.  
A Certain Butcher's wife being with child, as she was stirring the blood of a Beast newly killed, a little thereof did chance to sprinkle or spurt on her face: which, she with her hand suddenly wiped off, & then wiped the same hand on her left thigh: Who after being brought to bed of a boy, the same boy had and hath the like mark, or blood spot on his left thigh. They that knew both the Father, Mother, and the child, told this for a very truth. Therefore it is not good to hit a woman suddenly, being with child, on the face or otherwise: lest the child she is with all, be so marked, as is declared in other places of this book.  
THe sick person can not escape, when the light of the time, (that is,) the Sun in the day, and the Moon in the night, and the Alumten of the Ascendent, are both impedyte, or evil affected of the Lord of the eight house, or of the Lord of the fourth house. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
IF you will take the heair from any place of the body, and would have it to grow there no more: stamp Ants eggs with the juice of Henbane and Humlockes, or with the blood of a Back, or Reremowse: and anoint the place therewith. Mizaldus.  
IF you cut the liver of a Beast, in pieces: and put into the same pieces, the powder of Nux vomica, called the spewing Nut, (which is to be had at the Apothecaryes',) the same pieces being strewed or laid in an open place, where Ravens or Crows may resort thereto: the Crows or Ravens that eats thereof, can not fly away: whereby you may take them easily. This I know to be certain and true.  
THe little Bird, called Linaria, begins to leave singing, and also to be sick, when the Star called the little Dog, doth rise, and will pluck off her feathers. Which chanceth about the mids of july: as we have proved by one and other, (sayeth Mizaldus) the space of ten years. And thereupon have showed to many, that then that Star did surely rise. And in a Lark we have observed the same, (saith he:) in the rising of Arcture with the Sun. And it is not to be doubted, but that other Birds, and living things, have their peculiar Star, whereby they are moved to sing, or to hold their peace, to sadness or gladness: which I desire the diligent searchers of secrets to observe. Thus much Mizaldus.  
THe Lord of the Ascendent in the twelfth house, in a humane sign, without the beams of good Stars: the Child then borne will be imprisoned. This is true and often proved: and also Taisnier affirms it.  
THis following is a sure and proved medicine for the tooth ache. Take a handful of ground ivy, as much of Spear Mint, and as much of Salt, stamp them all a little together, then put all the same into a pint of vinegar, and seeth all well over the fire: then strain it well, and put the same into a close glasen vessel, or bottle: and when you will occupy it, take a spoonful thereof, and put it into that side of the mouth that acheth, and hold down your cheek that it may descend to the roots of the aching teeth: and it will take the ache and pain away presently. This was taught me by a woman, to whom many resorted for help: who used only this medicine therefore.  
AN ointment made of the oil of bitter Almonds, Honey, the roots of lilies, and of wax: Is an excellent thing to anoint the face withal, to get away wrinkles, spots, and other deformyties of the face. Mizaldus.  
YOu may take Foxes with this wile following. Anoint the soles of your shoes, with a piece of fat swines flesh as broad as your hand, newly toasted, or a little broiled at the fire, when you go out of the wood homeward. And in every of your st●ppes cast a piece of the liver of a Swine roasted, and dypt in honey: and draw after your back, the dead carcase of a Cat, and when the Fox following thee, comes near unto the steps: be sure to have a man nigh thee with bow and shafts to shoot at him: or by some other means to it him. Mizaldus had this of an expert Hunter.  
WOmen that have double apples in their eyes, or strales: do every where hurt with their looking. (Which is called of some overlooking.) Cicero.  
Bodies that are strucken with lightning, do remain uncorrupt: therefore in ancient time they did neither burn nor bury the bodies of such as were strucken or killed with lightning, whereupon it is plain to all men, that the same bodies are not corrupt as others. Mizaldus.  
IF the Lord of the eight house, be in the third or ninth house: (it signifies) the child then borne, shall die among Strangers, or out of his native soil. Taisnier.  
Wormwood newly stamped with the white of an Egg, and laid over the eyes, taketh away the blood and readnes thereof: of what humour soever it come. This hath been often proved.  
IF one do take this confection following fasting, he shall never fall into the pains of colic nor Ilyacke. Take the outward rinds of Radyshes, being taken or pared thick, two pound, white Honey, four pound, let them boil together unto the consumption of half the Honey, than put thereto of the powders of cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmugs, Mace, black Pepper, of each two drams, mix them together, and let them be put up in a clear vessel, and let the patiented take & eat every morning half an ounce of the said rinds of the Radishes. Benedictus victorius Faventinus.  
IF you take the powder of Brasell, & mingle it well with milk, but so that it be very read, & put therein either staff, wood, or bone, letting it lie therein eight days: it will make the same wood or bone read, for ever. I had this out of an old written book.  
TO dream that you go over a broken bridge, betokens fear: to have your head cut off for a heinous offence, signifies the death of friends: to make clean the hands, betokens trouble: to see hands filthy or fowl, doth signify loss and danger: to feed Lambs, signifies grief, or pain: to take flies, signifies wrong or injury. Mizaldus.  
A Garland made of ivy leaves, and laid upon women's paps, or dugs, that hangs flagging down: it gathers them together, and makes them round. ivy leaves stamped and applied thereto, works the like effect. Mizaldus.  
A Toad being strucken of a Spider, or of a Serpent: doth help herself by eating of Planten. Plinius. For confirmation whereof, a Toad being on the ground hard by a wall, a Spider did suddenly strike the said Toad on the back: Which when the Toad felt, beginning to swell, did eat of Planten nigh unto the place. Whereof being well, the Spider again, did poison the Toad, with her venom as before. Which done, the Toad preserved herself with the said Planten as before. But one that chanced to behold the same, did then cut up the said Planten, and took it away from that place. Which Toad the third time being strucken, or rather poisoned of the spider, as before: Immediately searching for the said Planten, (for as it should seem there was no more Planten nigh to that place:) which when she could not find, did swell so sore, that soon after she did burst withal. The party that did take away the same Planten, and did see this strange & marvelous matter, did tell me this for a very truth. Whose credit I knew to be such, that I am bold here to place the same having such good occasion. And I heard that a noble man of this Realm, did see the like.  
Whosoever is sore grieved with the stone, and can not make water, let them drink a spoonful of the powder called pulvis duiriticus, in a draft of white Wine: (which you may have made at the Apothecaries,) and use it three or four mornings together, or something less, if you list. give half so much to a child, and without doubt, it will make them avoid the stone, and to make water presently. I have proved it often times to be a sovereign thing in this case. And there was one from whom I had it, that got therewith above an hundredth pound by the year. If it be truly and well made. You will praise it as well as I have done, and because it is such a notable thing, I would have it better known, and more used.  
MAke oil of Paper, by burning fair clean Paper on a clean pewter dish or saucer: or hold a piece of fair Paper folded on a knives point, and set fire on the nethermost end thereof, and hold the same nigh unto the saucer: and out thereof will come a little moist Oil, and be on the saucer. Take a little thereof on a clean feather, and put it into the eye that is sore or dim of sight: and it will help the same marvelously. It hath been proved in many to be excellent. And Euonimus doth praise it therefore.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent be in the eight house Infortunate, it signifies that the sick party will kill himself through evil guiding of himself. jatromathematica. Guat. riff.  
A Sprite came nigh unto M. Brutus, leading an army of men from Asia: when, Brutus asked him who he was: he answered, I am thy evil Angel, whom thou shalt see in the fields of Philoppis in Thessaly, and there Brutus died in conflict. Plutarch.  
A Grymony sodden in red wine, wherewith if wounds be washed, it cleanseth all fylths and corruption from them. And the leaves of Agremony beaten, or stamped, and tied upon wounds that be evil joined, or knit together: by and by it doth open them. A certain spaniard told this to Mizaldus.  
HE that receives a sum of money, in the hour of Venus: he will spend the same with women, in pleasures and wantonness. Haly.  
THe juice of Rew mixed with Honey, that hath been skummed, & a little thereof put into the eye at once, rideth them that use it, of an ancient dimness of the sight. Proved often.  
IF a Woman hath not conceived, and thou wilt know whether she shall conceive or not: let her be well covered with clothes, and beneath let a fumygation be made of hot things, and odoriferous, or sweet smelling: for if the smell come up through her body to the nose, and mouth: be sure that she is not barren of herself. Hidpocrates Aphor.  
Whosoever is grieved & tormented with the stone, let them take one ounce of the roots of radish, cut in slyces: and lay the same to steep in half a pint of good white Wine all night, then strain the same well, and put thereto of the Electuary, called Lithontripon, of the description of Nicholas: and also justinum, one dram: mix them with the said white Wine, wherein the Radish was infused, and let him that is grieved with the stone, receive all the same at one time: and you shall see a marvelous wo●ke thereof. If need be, let him receive the like quantity thereof three or four days together. This is proved to be a sure & an excellent thing, for breaking and avoiding the stone, and gravel. Be sure that the Apothecaries make it of good stuff.  
A Head of garlic, (the skins pulled off, and a little bruised,) laid by equal parts, to the hollow parts of the soles of their feet, that are grievously tormented with the tooth ache: especially, if it come of a cold cause, and be on the neither jaw: it will help them with speed, by drawing the humours out of the soles of the feet. I have known them that have taken this medicine, and have not been troubled with the tooth ache of seven years after.  
THat man is like to have few Children, in whose Nativity Saturn is in the Ascendent, opposite to Venus: or if Venus be in a barren sign, infortunate of Saturn: or if Venus be in the house of Saturn, especially, Infortunate of him. jatromathematica. Guat. riff.  
IF you rub or touch warts with the leaves of a Fig tree, the Warts will consume and vanish away: so that the said leaves be buried within the earth or ground. Some ascribes the same to the heart of a Pigeon. Mizaldus.  
ELephants of all other Beasts, do chief hate the Mouse. So that if they shall see or perceive, that a Mouse hath once touched their meat that is before them, they loath the same, and will not eat a bit thereof. Plinius.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent, be Combust in the twelfth house, he that is then borne, will die in prison, or in captivity. Taisnier.  
THe powder of the berries of Bryony▪ drunk in the water wherein water Cresses are sod: doth marvelously heal the Strangury.  
IF any Woman great with child, shall take this drink following, every other day in the morning, three hours before she eat any meat, beginning the same about ten days or a fortnight before the time of the birth: the birth shall not only be made more easy, but also she shall bring forth her child without pain. Take of the great Treackle, one scruple, (which is the weight of xxiiii barley corns,) the powder of Lycqueries, and the powder of cinnamon, of either three grains, of good white Wine, one ounce and a half, mix all together, and make there of a drink, and let it be given to the Woman with Child, in such manner as is before said. Benedictus victorius faventinus, in his Book called Emperica.  
THis following will stop the bloody flux. Take yarrow and Planten, of either a like much, stamp them well together, and put thereto red Wine, and strain it well, and drink a good draft thereof, first and last, three or sour days together: and certainly it will stay it. It is an easy and precious thing.  
IF you will prove whether a Woman be with child or not, let her make water in a copper, or brazen vessel, and let a Needle lie therein a whole night, that is bright and clean: and if she be with child, the Needle will have red spots on it. If not, than it will be blackish or rusty. It is proved as Mizaldus was informed.  
IF a Crow chance to eat of the rest of the flesh whereof a Wolf hath eaten before: the same Crow will die soon after. Aclianus and Philes.  
Neither falling sickness, neither devil, will infest or hurt one in that place: whereas a bay tree is. The Romans calls it the Plant of the good Angel. etc. Mizaldus.  
Writing Ink tempered with water, wine, or vinegar, wherein Woormwood hath been steeped: mice will not eat the Papers or Letters written with that Ink. And also clothes wherein Woormwood is laid or wrapped, is safe from moths: and if there be any there, it will drive them away. Diascorides.  
THe hour of Mars is to be abhorred, in all things, both in the beginning, and when the thing is done. Haly Abenragel. Therefore you were best to take heed, that you take no notable thing, or great matter in hand, or begin any long journey, in the hour of Mars: if you can by any means know when it is. But whosoever puts their whole trust in GOD, and guides their life by the rule of his holy word: (be they never so simple and unlearned:) he will so guide them, and so instruct them, that they shall avoid all such dangers, and p●rryllous times. And contrary, the wicked, learned, (yea though they know the times, shall not have power to avoid them. As I have seen in many: which afterward they did well consider, though to late. And as I have said of Mars: so I say of Saturn. For there is never a good of them both. Y●t I do not think, that Saturn or Mars shows such harm to them, in whose Nativities they are Sygnifyers, or bears rule in the Ascendent: but chief to such in whose Nativity they are Lords of the. xii.vii.v. or viii house. But surely I have marked it long, and yet I never saw any notable thing begun in the hour of Mars or Saturn: that came to a good end. Which they shall well find, that begins to set forward towards the Sea, in Saturn's hour. I speak by trial as well as Haly doth: which I should not have considered so much, but by his counsel and proof.  
OXen, kine, Bullocks, or Horses, shall not be troubled with any disease: if you hung a Heart's horn upon them. Absyrtus.  
IF you join a lions skin, to the skin of a Wolf, of any other Beast: it will make them without hair, or 'cause their hair to fall or consume away. Mizaldus.  
CO●ewoorts, and Rew (called herb Grace,) are so contrary in nature the one to the other: that they aught not to be sown nigh together. Fracastorius.  
IF any Sheep, or else heayry Beasts, or else Man or Woman, be full of worms in any wound or sore: take of the wool of the same Sheep, or heair of that Beast, or some of the heair of that Man or Woman, and hide the same before the rising of the Sun, under the bark of a tree, called Trembla, (which is a kind of black Poplar tree.) Do thus certain days, and thou shalt see the worms fall out of the wound or sore miraculously: or else they will die, or leave that place. There be that ascribes the same to the Byrch tree, and also to the root of wild succory hanged at the neck, in manner of a Crosse. Which Mizaldus saw observed in a Dog, one of whose ears was almost eaten off with worms.  
IT is proved oftentimes by experiment, that many being borne in the conjunction of the Sun and Moon, do die in the opposition: (that is in the full Moon:) and they that be borne in the full of the Moon, are dead in the conjunction, (that is in the new Moon.) Taisnier.  
PUt two or three of the seeds of Oculus christi, into your eye: and within a while after you shall not feel them. Whereby you will think they are not there. But at the last they will drop or fall out of themselves: compassed about with slimy matter, which hynders the sight. Which if you use, thy will cleanse and clear your eyes marvelously. This I know to be very true.  
IF one doth buy warts of them that have them, and give them a pin therefore: if the party that hath the Warts, prick the same pin upon some garment that he wears daily, or commonly, the Wart or warts without doubt will demynish and wear away privily, and be clean gone in short time. This was told me for an often tried and proved thing: yea, and by such a one as had seen the experience thereof. Also warts rubbed with a piece of raw Beef, and the same Beef being buried within the ground: the warts will wear and consume, as the Beef doth rot in the ground. Proved.  
Salted armoniac stamped, and mixed with water, doth make white Letters nothing dyffering from the colour of Payer. But if you hold the same Paper to the fire, the Letters will wax black. Mizaldus.  
A Thing to be marveled at, and worthy to be remembered doth follow, declared by jovianus Pontanus. A certain Caietane Woman, (saith he) was married to a fisher, whom he did use as his Wife, according to the order of Marriage, many years (as Antonius Panthormita, being a friend of the same fisher, was wont to tell to the said jovianus Pontanus, when he was young:) which Woman after she had been married fowreteene years, did became to be a Man, and suddenly, there sprung out the members of a Man, in the natural place of the Woman. Which being so ashamed of her condition, as one that thought she should be mocked or laughed to scorn both of Men and Women, become a Religious Woman, and lived in a Monastary, where he know her the rest of her life. And she was buried at Rome, in the Temple of Marie to Minerva. And an other Woman called Aemilia, was married to one Anthony a Citizen of Ebula, and after she was married twelve years, she was changed into a Man, and was conversant with Men: using then the arts and trades of men, in that Country, and married a Wife. This writeth he in the tenth book De rebus celestibus. etc. Mizaldus.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent, be Combust in the Ascendent, or in the first house: it signifies short life to the child then borne. Taisnier.  
TAke the inner rind of an Oak tree, and seeth it well in fair water, and then bathe any sore, old or new therewith, half a dozen times together, twice every day: and at every time when it is thus bathed, then anoint it with Butter and brimstone mixed well together: and within nine or ten days it will be whole, (God willing.) A true and tried medicine.  
THis following will help the yellow jaundice with speed. Take a Burr root, the greater, the better, scrape it clean: then take a pot of new Ale, and put your root therein, and the Ale will boil, and let it be therein one day and one night well stopped, then let the patiented drink a good draft, two or three times: and he will be whole certainly. Proved.  
THe sick is much to be feared, if in the Ascendent, or in the eight house, or with their Lords, there be evil Stars or Planets. But if good Planets be there: It is safe enough. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
ARystotle and Auycen do affirm, that of the round and short Egg, the Cock chycken doth come: of the long and sharp Egg, the Hen chycken. Mizaldus.  
IF you put yellow Amber, into hot melted wax, (before well skimmed:) it will be then as soft as clay, so that you may make things thereof, in what form or fashion you will: it will be so tractable and soft. Mizaldus had this secret of a certain cunning Lapidary.  
THere is nothing better to drive away Serpents, or Snakes, than the smoke of old Leather, or old shoes burned, or else to bring them out of one's body, before crept into them by sleeping open mouthed. Whereof Marc. Gatinarica (an excellent Physician) doth write, that the like did happen to a certain man in his time: to whom when many medicines were given in vain, the said man received the smoke of old leather at his mouth by a funnel, (so that it went into his body,) and as soon as the venomous thing in his body, felt the said smoke: he came out at his fundament. Which was a marvelous great Uyper, to the great marvel and fear of all them that were present.  
seeth the inner rind of the young branches of a Hasell tree in small Ale, until half be consumed, and let them that have the Strangury, drink a good draft thereof first and last, for the space of eight or nine days together: and it will help them certainly, for it never fails. Therefore prove it, and praise it.  
IN the first beginning of any sickness, or at the time of a question, for the state of the sick person, if the Moon be corrupt (or afflicted) of Saturn in the three first degrees of Scorpio: it betokens death. johannes Ganivetus.  
A Notable medicine for the Sciatica, doth follow. Take Ox dung, and Pigeons dung, of either one pound, and mix them well together with one pottle of white Wine, and let them boil together until half the Wine be consumed, then strain it through a linen cloth, than put thereto half a pound of Honey, and twelve yolks of Eggs, and half a pound of melted wax: and mix all together with as much barley meal as will suffice for the making of it in a plaster, and put it hot to the painful place. This was proved by King Henry the fift, as the writing did witness, out of the which I had this. Besides, it hath been since proved.  
LEt the Physician take heed of his first visiting of the sick in the hour of Saturn, and Mars, if he come to him in the hour of Saturn: either the sick will die, or else the Physician shall have great labour, doubts, and slackness in the curing of him. Neither shall he help him, except it be even to desperation, or out of all hope. And if he be sent for, or go to him first in the hour of Mars: there will be ●hydinges and brawlings betwixt him and the sick party, and small gain. The hours of jupiter and Venus are much praised. The hours of the other Planets are indifferent. jotromathematica. Guat. riff.  
A green Lyserd hath a great delight to behold a Man in the face, for he will lovingly fawn upon him as a Dog, with the moving of his tail. And as much as in him lies, will defend him from a Serpent, that lies lurking in the herbs to hurt him. Lemnius.  
THe juice, or water, strained out of Radish roots, (before stamped) mixed with white Wine, and the powder of Turpentine burned, or dried in the Sun, and so received: is an excellent medicine to break and drive forth the stone. And it is given with happy success. A thing proved, much better than gold. Mizaldus.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent, be found in the ninth house: he that is then borne, shall of his own free will go far and long journeys. And if there be a good Planet in the same ninth house with him, or else doth behold him with a happy Aspect: than it shall happen well to him in his journeys. If an evil Planet, then contrary. Taisnier.  
Say a thin piece of raw Beef, to the forehead of them that have lost their voice, and let it lie thereto all night unremoved: and it will help them presently, or at the lest within three or four several applications.  
TAke the bones of Beasts which be found in the fields, and chief of Horses, (because they be best therefore,) and let them be well washed: after let them be dried at the Sun, than put them into a great Cawdren with water, & let them seeth long, and gather the fat that swyms above, wherewith anoint the gout or palsy, of whatsoever cause they come: and it will be helped.  
seeth ivy, Mugwoort, Walwoort, and the inner rind of Eldern, in water with much Salt, and bathe therewith any Sciatica, twice or thrice a day, for eight or nine days together: and the party grieved will be made hole. This I had out of an old written book, wherein was many excellent things.  
IF you sprynckle the powder of Saffern, round about the weak, upon the Oil in a fair green and bright Lamp of glass, and let the same burn, (so that there be none other light in the same Chamber:) it will beawtifye all things in the same place, with a fair yellow colour. You may prove it by other colours likewise.  
THe dung of a Wolf, being hidden in a Stable or house, where cattle be, especially Sheep: It will not only make them leave from eating of their meat: but also it will 'cause them to stir up and down, and to blate, or to make a noise, and also to quake and tremble, as though their devouring enemy the Wolf were thert present. Neither will they cease from doing thus, until they feel or perceive, that the said dung is taken away. Mizaldus.  
THere is nothing better to draw forth Thorns, pricks, or any other thing whatsoever, in any part of the body wheresoever it be, then black Soap applied to the place: letting the same lie▪ thereto twelve hours without removing of the same.  
A Certain noble Matron in the parts of Spain, had a strong Imagination of a great Etheopyan, painted in her Chamber, with other, in the time of the act of generation. Which Lady afterward was delivered of a Boy, like to that great Etheopyan painted, before named. Which child being borne, every one believed, that she had lain with some one of the slaves of the Sarseyns. For that the child was like none of his Parents. Whereupon the ministers of justice, with consent of her Husband, and other, did decree, that she should be burned after the months end. But before the ministration of this justice or execution: certain wise men were called, whereof one desired, that he might see the place where the child was begot: which when he had seen, he considered, that that generation was, by the strength of the Imagynative virtue. And then he said, that that great Etheopyan was the father of the child. bringing forth for the confirmation thereof, that place of the Bible, where jacob put speckled Rods before the Sheep: by which Imagination, the Ewes brought forth speckled Lambs. Which when he had spoken, the Lady was delivered from burning. Wherefore as I have written in other places of this Book, men aught not rashly to mislike their Wives, (having none other occasion,) because their children are unlike to their Parents. For as you see here, and in jacob's Lambs, Imagination is of marvelous force in the time of generation. Which doth not only work in men, but in Beasts. Ganivetus writes this History, who as it should seem, hath it out of Lyra.  
THe flowers of Marygooldes, as also of Succory, and of certain other herbs, do begin to open at the rising of the Sun, at noon they are fully and wholly opened: But they are closed, or are shut, when the Sun doth set. Therefore some calls it, and such other, Sponsus solis, the Spouse of the Sun. Because they sleep, and are awakened with him. etc. Mizaldus. And the daily trial thereof, affirms it.  
IF Asses do eat much of hemlocks, they will be cast thereby into a deep and dead sleep, that they will seem to be dead. Which hath deceived the country men being ignorant thereof: for as they have been flaying of their skins, (thinking that they were dead,) the silly Asses have stirred and wakened out of their sleep: to the great terror of them that did slay them, or cut of their skins, and to the great laughing of them that did behold them. As Andrea's Matthiolus, (that learned Physician,) hath written in his commentaries upon Diascorides.  
PUt the ashes of a burnt Snail, upon the spot in the eye: and within three days it will take it away. Barth.  
IF one come to ask or inquire the Astrologian, for any thing in the hour of an evil Planet, that is: of Saturn or Mars, it is a suspicion rather to evil then to good. And chief, if that evil Planet be any where impedyte, Retograde, or Combust, or in his fall, or Cadent from an Angle. And this is to be understanded likewise of the coming of any on the behalf of any that is sick, or bringing the urine of the sick, or of any that doth ask counsel, or inquire of the estate of the sick, (though the urine be not seen,) it is a suspicion of evil for the sick: though it be not a full testimony thereof. Ganivetus.  
IF a Woman, that is too much weakened with her monthly course, doth cast the same, or let the same run into a hole, made in the ground with a three squared stake, (the same stake immediately after being put or driven into the same hole, and so remain therein unremoved:) her said flux will stay or cease, being thought before to be uncurable. An honest Woman revealed this strange secret to me. Which proved the same to be true: and she learned it of a poor Woman, that required almose of her at her door.  
IN the Lake called Larius, (which now is called Comensis,) certain fishers in the winter, did draw with their nets to the dry land, a great sort of Seamewes', (seeming to be dead,) which were joined together with their bills or nebbes in another's tail or fundament: and being warmed with their guts, were found a live. Garuas. Tibellesius.  
THe leaves of dock do louse the belly, & makes one laxative: But the seeds being taken, do bind and are restrictive. Galen.  
IF Wine have gotten any tartness, or sourness: take a pot filled with good water, and let it be well covered, then set the same pot with water in the vessel with Wine: (so that the pot stand under, or within the Wine,) and at the three days end, if the Wine have gotten his former strength, the water will smell, and then the Wine will like thee. Tarentinus.  
A Piece of raw Beef, (not too thick nor too thin,) being laid or steeped all the night before in good Aqua Composita, and applied to the temples or the forehead, without removing all the night: (and thus doing three or four nights,) doth help the watering and pains of the eyes, and all distyllations and rheums that comes from the head or brain. One told me this which had often proved it to be most true, as a great secret.  
WHen Mercury is in the tenth house not impedyte: the child then borne, will be mighty, wise, and a great Philosopher. Celi enarrant.  
Anoint young Swallows with saffern, & soon after the old Swallows will bring a stone unto them: wherewith the Dropsy will be cured. This I had out of a book of Secrets.  
AN Egg laid on a Thursday, and emptied, and filled with Salt, and lo set in the fire, remaining there until it may be made in powder, and then cankered teeth rubbed with the powder thereof: it both kylles the canker, and the worms that eats the teeth, and destroys them. Proved for truth.  
THis following will destroy Ringwoormes, Tetters, and Scales in the hands. Take white Coprose, the quantity of two beans, & put it into a pint of clear water, till it be resolved, or melted: and with that water wash the place or hands, till they be whole. Proved.  
Stamp Pearceley in white Wine, then strain it well, and drink a good draft thereof: and it will 'cause thee to make water, and break the stone, use it five or two times. This hath been well proved.  
THe wise and learned men in old time, did think, that a Toad put into a new earthen pot, and set within the ground, and so covered with earth, in the mids of a field: will drive away Crows or Birds from Corn that 'tis sown there. But about Harvest time, they will that it be digged up, and to be cast forth of the lymmyts of the same fyelds, lest the Corn be bitter thereby. Plin.  
A little piece of the Navel string of a Child, that is newly borne, enclosed in a Ring, and so borne that it may touch the flesh, or bore skin: is a most sure help and remedy, against the great pains and torments of the colic. Mizaldus.  
THey whose hair of the eye brows do touch or meet together, of all other are the worst. They do show that he or she is a wicked person, and an intyser of servants, and given to unlawful and naughty arts: which johannes Indagnies saith, he hath observed in old Women being Wytches, which were led to be burned, whose eye brows were such. As Thaddeus Hageccius hath also noted.  
SAturne in the ninth house, doth signify fears in journeys: but more in the Sea, chief, in a watery sign: and in Cancer the house of the Moon. Taisnier.  
FINIS. Lib. 6.   

❧ The seventh Book of Notable things.  
THe water wherein the leaves of Planten, (that grows close to the ground, and near the root) is sod, being droonke twice every day, morning and evening, first & last, half a pint at a time, for the space of four or five days: helps perfectly all griefs and diseases of the bladder. A true medicine and often proved.  
A Notable water for breaking of the stone. Take of the juice of Saxifrage, two pound, of the juice of Gromell, and of the juice of Pearslye, of either one pound, of the juice of betony, of the juice of nettles, and of the juice of Ramsens, of each half a pound, of strong white vinegar, ten ounces, of the flowers and seeds of Broome, and of the roots of Radish, of each two handfuls, stamp the last rehearsed well: then mix the same with all the juices before mentioned, and thereof distil a water, with a gentle fire: of which water give to them that have the stone, one ounce at one time, with Oxinell Diuretycke, (which you may have at the Apothecaries,) using the same nine or ten days, (if need be:) and it will break & avoid the stone wonderfully. There can not be a better medicine for the stone: prove it when you will.  
IN the Islands of Ireland, and Orcades, in certain places there, there be certain Trees there, much like unto willow trees, out of which comes forth certain little heayres, increasing by little and little into Birds, having shape of Ducks, hanging upon the bows by their nebs or bills: and when they are comed to full perfectness, they fly away of themselves, and falls into the next Seas, (which Birds we call Barnacles.) This is related by the people that devil there. Mizaldus.  
IF one be bewitched of any, put quicksilver into a quill and stop it, or else into a hollow Nut shell, enclosed fast with wax: and lay the same under the pillow of the party bewytched, or under the threshold of the door where he enters into the house or Chamber. johannes Weckerus.  
HE that shall deliver a sum of Money in the hour of the Moon: he shall have much a do to get it again. And at last he shall mistrust of the recovering thereof: but at the length he shall recover it, but not all. Abablez filius Zaed.  
betony stamped and made in a plaster, and laid to the eye, healeth a stripe in the eye. And if the eyes be washed with the water wherein betony is sodden, they will be hole without dimness, or other blemish. And if you drink a dram of the powder of Betony, with the water of Betony, it will bring down and heal the clowdynesse, and blouddynesse of the eyes. And if Betony be eaten, it drieth up the tears of the eyes. All this and more hath been proved of Betony.  
Mark on what day any doth fall sick, and number the days from the sixth kalends of july, (which is the xxvi day of june) until the day when the party did first begin to be sick: and divide that whole number by three, and then if at the last, one remain, he will quickly escape, if two remain, he will be long sick, if one remain, than it is to be feared he will die of that sickness. This I had out of a book of Secrets.  
A marvelous cure of a Woman, that was swollen, done by one john Ardern, whose words thereof were these. I john Ardern did see a certain Woman at Newarke, whose whole body was suddenly swollen, and also the face, neck, and legs, who did lie, as though she were half dead: to whom I gave the roots of Daffadyll stamped, and mixed with water and saffern, which being drunk, she was quickly hole. I wrote this ●ut of an old written book.  
TAke heed in letting of blood or giving of Purgations, or strong medicines, that the Lord of the eight house be not with the Moon, or with the Lord of the Ascendent. Likewise that the Moon, nor the Lord of the Ascendent be in the fourth or eight house, nor that the Lord of the eight house be in any Angle, and it is not good that the Moon be in the Ascendent. jatromathematica. Guat. riff.  
A Wind rising in the North, in the beginning of the night, or in the twelve light, by and by he ceaseth and leaveth his place. Therefore it is, that the shipmen or Mariners (having just trial thereof,) will not set forth in that wind, unless it hath continued three days. The South wind is contrary, which if it rise or begin in the beginning of the day, it brings hope to the Mariners that it will continue, and not quickly departed out of that place. Mizaldus.  
THe skin of the right heel, of a Uultar laid to the right foot, and of the left heel, to the left foot, of them that are pained with the gout: It is said that it doth mitigate the grief, and ease the pains. Mizaldus.  
LUte strings or Harp strings cut in little pieces, and cast upon flesh newly sodden or roasted: will seem to be worms. Whereby they that knows not thereof, will refuse the same meat. Mizaldus.  
IF the Yard doth swell and be grievously pained, mingle Wax, Oil, and the juice of Purslane together, and apply it to the swollen Yard: and it will help it. It is often proved.  
Johannes Ganivetus writeth, that in the year of the Lord .1431. the seventh day of August (being Tuesday,) about seven of the clock in the morning, one Master Henricus Amici, a Doctor of Physic, borne at Bruxelles in Brabant, did ask him for the Lord Deane of Viennens. then being sick, whether he should die or recover of that sickness. In the figure of which question, he found that the Moon was going in conjunction to the Sun, under the beams of the Sun, which was a testimony of death. With divers other lykelyhoods of the same. But espying Mercury beginning to be Retrograde, within one degree of the Ascendent, (corrupting the degree ascending,) did judge that he would shortly fall into a frenzy, at the furthest, within a natural day: although he was a very wise man. And so it came to pass. For within less than a natural day, he become frantic. And so died within two days after.  
TAke cloves of garlic, and burn them in a pot all to powder, and if you use to eat of that powder in your pottage: doubtless it will procure you to make water, if you are troubled with the stone. This I had out of a very old book.  
IF you put the powder of Allom in water, whatsoever you write therewith, the writing or Letters will not appear: unless you put the same paper in water, and then you shall read it perfectly. Bapt. porta.  
THis that followeth, is a most excellent, true & sure proved medicine, for a great and old grief, and pain of the head. Take of bay Salt stamped by itself, as much of Coomyn seed stamped likewise by itself, as much brown Fennel, and then stamp or beat them all together then with as much pure vinegar & also a little rose-water: mix & stir them all together in a dish over a 〈◊〉 dish with hot coals, and then lay some of the same hot upon a cloth, and apply it so to the hinder part of the head at night, and tie it fast thereto, that it fall not away. And also lay an other plaster thereof hot thereto the next night, and so do nine night's together, one after another: and it will not only help the same, (perhaps within three or four times so doing:) but also it will clear the sight, and draw the humours clean away, that runs out of the head into the eyes, and dry up the same. This medicine never fails. Therefore it is a precious thing, and worthy to be esteemed.  
A Good way to get the stone called Craupaudina, out of the Toad. Put a great or overgrown Toad, (first bruised in divers places) into an earthen pot, and put the same in an Aunt's hillock, & cover the same with earth, which Toad at length the Ants will eat: So that the bones of the Toad and stone, will be left in the pot. Which Mizaldus and many other (as he saith) have often times proved.  
IT is said, that the female Uyper doth open her mouth, to receive the generatyve sparme of the male Uyper, (which he doth, by putting his mouth into her mouth,) which received, she doth bite off his head. This is the manner of the froward generating of Uipers. And after that, the young Uipers' the springs of the same, do eat or gnaw a sunder their mother's belly, thereby 〈◊〉 or bursting forth. And so they, (being revengers of their Father's injury) do kill their own mother. Galen. de Theriaca ad Pi●onem. You may see, they were a towardly kind of people, that Christ called the ●eneration of Uypers.  
seeth Sage and drink it, either stamp it, and lay it to the Matrix, for both ways it provoketh the flowers and after burdens. Petrus Hispanus.  
THe girdle worn of a Child, being under seven years of age, (some says twelve years of age,) taken and tied about the middle of one that hath the falling sickness: and then presently taken from the said party, and cut in nine pieces, and every piece thrown nine several ways, is a present and perfect remedy to heal and help the same party thereof, without saying of any words. They that told it to me did see it proved: a thing no doubt very strange, and almost incredible. Some thinks that this will not prevail, but at the first falling of the party.  
THe tongue of a Dog laid under the great toe within the shoe: doth cease the barking of Dogs at the party that so wears the same. Mizaldus.  
THe skin of an Ass being tanned, and shoes made of that part of the hide, whereon the burdens did lie that the Ass carried: they will never tear nor be worn. Not, although you go continually among stones and thorns, and with the oldness thereof, they will wax so hard, that one can not suffer to wear them: as Cardanus hath written.  
TO stop the bleeding of the nose: take nine or ten fresh new Leeks, and put a thread thorough the mids of them, (but cut of the tops of the leaves,) then hung them about the party's neck that bleeds, so that the leaves be upward to the nose, & the heads of them downward. It is good also to smell to Camphor dissolved in vinegar, and also to put the root of Pyony under the tongue. jacobus Holleri●s.  
IF you take of Mouth glue & Allom, equal parts, mixing them together, and then power vinegar to them: what thing soever you shall cast into the fire, being rubbed, or all over anointed therewith: it will not be burned. Mizaldus.  
MArs in the ninth house, doth threaten in long journeys, chief on the land, fear (and evil hap or success:) but not in Capricorn, seeing it is his exaltation. Taisnier.  
IT is credibly reported, that whosoever is sick, and at the point of death, (though they be marvelous old,) lying or being in a certain place in Ireland: the same party can not die, until he or she shall be removed out of that place. And many that have been there, (being very old and weary of their lives,) have earnestly desired to be removed from thence: who as soon as they have been out of the same place, have died presently. A very strange thing, if it be true.  
Stamp Rew with oil of Roses, and lay the same some thing thick upon the crown of the head, of one that is sick, (the same being first shaven,) and if the same party do neese within six hours after, he will escape that sickness. If not, he will die thereof.  
TO make a green that will not vade away. Take the flowers of Flowredeluse, stamp them and strain them, than put the juice thereof into goom water, and dry it in the Sun.  
TO make Letters of gold: Take goom of Almonds and temper it with Uermylyon finely ground, let the goom be dissolved in the white of an Eeg, then write therewith, and it will be like gold. Proved.  
IF you will know in what year Wheat will be dear or cheap, and what time of the year, and what month the same will chance: Elect or those twelve fair corns of Wheat, in the kalends of january, (which is the first day of january,) then sweep the fire hearth clean, and make a fire: then take a young wench, or a boy of the house, or else one that dwells nigh you, and bid the same boy or wench lay one of the said Corns on the same hearth, being hot and made clean: and when that is done, mark diligently, whether the said Corn abide still in the place, or leap: If it be still, then say that the price will continue: If it leap a little, the price will abate a little: If it leap much, then persuade thyself, that it will wa●e very cheap: If it leap towards the fire, it will be dearer in the first month, and so more or less, for the greater or lesser access of the same to the fire. Do so with the second Corn, and it will presayge for the second month, that is, for February: And so you may judge of all the rest. That is, the third Corn for March: the fourth, for April: and so of the other. Mizaldus hath heard that it hath been proved of many.  
THe Lion is more fierce against Men, than Women: for Nature hath taught him that Women are to be more myldlye used then Men: as Pliny affirms. And Aristotle saith, that it is more wicked to kill a Woman, than a Man. etc. And the Poet saith: Quód faeminea in pena nullum est memorabile nomen: Which is true. A man also can get no praise nor honesty by beating of a woman. Which let butcherly beaters, and cruel tormentors of their wives, mark well and consider. Mizaldus.  
A Spoonful or more of the powder of the nettle seed, droonke in good Wine: doth assuage all pains of the Matrix, and takes away the wyndenes thereof, or the grief of the Mother. Petrus Hispan.  
BY this means following, you may put an Egg into a narrow mouthed glass. Say an Egg in strong vinegar, till it be tender: then fill the glass almost full with water, than put the windy Egg into the glass: and anon it will be hard. This is proved.  
TO roost a dish of Butter. Take fine grated white bread, and mix the same well with Sugar, than put a lump of Butter upon a spit, and turn the spit at the fire, and still cast the grated bread and the Sugar upon the Butter, and it will be a fine and trim dish of meat. Proved.  
IF a certain Worm with many feet, (which will become round like a pease, if she be touched, of some called a swine louse,) be pricked with a needle, & then any aching tooth touched with the same needle: the pain thereof will cease immediately. This I got hardly out of an old book.  
THey are possessed with devils, that have not in their nativities Mercury, with the Moon in some aspect, if neither of them behold the Ascendent. Which is the more certain, if Saturn be there in the Nativity of the day, and if Mars be there in the nightly Nativity: and if either of them be in an Angle, such is the nativity of devils. Albohazen. And they are or will be mad, that have Mercury and the Moon in this sort, except that Saturn contrary must be in an angle in the Nativity of the night, and Mars in an angle in a Nativity of the day. jatromath.  
THere is a certain Well at Gratianapolis, which although it hath not hot or warm water therein: yet oftentimes there comes out of the same together with the water flames of fire. Two contrary Elements at one time, out of one place flowing out together. Mizaldus' writeth this of the report of the Inhabytaunts of that place.  
IF you stamp Hollyocks with the whites of Eggs, and therewith anoint your hands, and throw then upon the same the powder of Allom: you may handle fire without any harm. Albertus. Praise it, as it proves.  
Drink no medicine in the hour of Saturn: neither enter or begin then any journey on the Sea. Haly Abenragel.  
White Wine, wherein Lapis Calaminaris is seven times quenched, (first made very hot in the fire,) doth marvelously stop the running of the eyes, and cleareth the sight: if you put a few drops thereof into them, and use to wash them therewith. This is a tried thing.  
IF you would allure or bring Pigeons to a dovehouse. Take a fat Dog and flea him, and fill his belly full of the seeds of Coomyn, then roast him dry, wash also the Pygion holes in the Doovecote with water wherewith Coomyn is sod: but first cleanse the said holes from all filthiness, than lay the roasted Dog upon a broad stone in the dovehouse, and hung a great glass in the top of the Lovor, and three or four little looking glasses within the Doovehouse, by some of the holes. Also take good clay, and mingle it with bay Salt & Coomyn, and make thereof a great lump like a Sugar loaf, than put it into an Oven & bake it hard, and set it by the dead Dog. Beware of Owls, Buszardes, and Starlynges, see the house be close that no vermin come therein, as Pollecattes, Weselles, or Ferryttes, and you shall have pigeons enough. Also make a shrape by the dovehouse, straw chaff there, then lay therein a good quantity of Barley, (but it must first be laid to steep in Honey three days,) and then cast it among the chaff, and then a great sort of Pygions will resort to that dovehouse.  
LYn seed put into the roots of radish, and by and by put into fat or dunged earth: it will bring forth an herb like Dragons, whose taste will seem like vinegar and Salt: therefore it is marvelously desired in sauces: for having this, you need neither vinegar nor Salt: as one that is chief of the King's gardens told me, saith Mizaldus.  
Fox's being sod, and cut in pieces, and then given to Hens or Geese amongst their meat: it makes them safe from being hurt of any Foxes after, for the space of two months. Mizaldus.  
THe seeds of Docks, tied to the left arm of a Woman, doth help barrenness, or sterilyty. Africanus.  
THe Moon and the Ascendent, are generally Signifyers of the hole ship, & of the state thereof: and the Lord of the Ascendent is the Sygnifyer of them that sails in the same: whereof if all they be Infortunate, the Ship is broken, and they that sailed in her are drowned, unless some one of them be received, (that is of the said Sygnifyers,) and then the impediment will chance in the drowning, and some clymers of the Ship, will escape: but if all they be Fortunate, all shall escape and be saved, (that is both Ship and men) chief: if there be any reception. Furthermore: if the Ascendent & the Moon be both fortunate, & the Lord of the Ascendent Infortunate, the Ship is safe, & the Sailors in her are destroyed: but if the Ascendent & the Moon be Infortunate, and the Lord of the Ascendent fortunate, the ship is overwhelmed, (or lost,) & the sailors in her are safe. Haly Aben.  
goats dung mingled with Uynegar & bran, and applied as a plaster to a sore breast, looseth wonderfully all swellings of the breast. It hath been proved.  
betony stamped and applied to any wound of the head, doth not only draw out the broken bones: but also doth heal the same with speed.  
A Special medicine to strengthen the back. Take a quart of white Wine, and the pith that runneth in an Ox back, and half a quarter of a pound of Dates, and of Marygooldes, Planten, betony, Pearsley roots, and Fennel roots, of all two handfuls: boil all these together, until the Wine be half wasted away: and then strain them through a cloth, and drink nine or ten spoonful thereof every morning and evening, for the space of nine or ten days: and it will strengthen the back marvelously.  
Five leaved grass sod in water, which water if it be droonke, and gulpt up & down into the throat: is an excellent help for sore throats.  
THey are divellysh or possessed with Devils, in whose nativities Saturn is Lord of the place of the Moon, and the Moon then under the beams of the Sun: or if Mars be Lord of the place of the Moon opposite to the Sun, especially in Sagitary. Haly Abenragel.  
TO keep Beasts safe that the blind mouse, called a Shrew, do not bite them. Enclose the same Mouse quick in chalk, which when it is hard, hung the same about the neck of the Beast, that you would keep safe from such biting. And it is most certain, that he shall not be touched nor bitten: as is before said. Vegetius.  
I Hear (saith Mizaldus,) that it is observed & proved, that a Cow, an Ewe, a she Ass, a Bitch, a she Cat, and such other domestical and tame Beasts of the Female kind, will cast their Calf, Lamb, colt, or that that they go withal: if the Male, by whom they conceived, be killed, while they went with the same. Such a strong and vehement concord or agreement, (of nature) is between, or among them.  
IF the ninth house begin in a fixed sign, or if Saturn be found in the same, (except it be Aries, (they that be then borne,) shall for the most part see true Dreams: but if in a movable sign, his Dreams will be without effect. etc. Taisnier.  
A Notable ointment for the head ache, coming of any cause, wherewith you must anoint the pulses of the temples, and all the forehead. Take of the juice of new or fresh Camamyle, four ounces, of the juice of new and fresh Roses, two ounces, of the juices of fresh Rew and betony, of either one ounce and a half, of the juice of the roots of Hollyock, two ounces, of oil Rosate Omphacine, one pound and a half, of the best and purest Alabaster, three ounces, powder the Alabaster finely, and put it into the said oil, and let it lie therein a day, and a night, then mix them all together, and with sufficient white wax, make it into an ointment: which ointment is good for any pain of the head, proceeding of any matter, or cause. And it may be used at any time of the fit or pain, except the beginning. Emperica benedicti victorij faventi.  
AN excellent distilled water for hearing, followeth. Take of the juice of betony, of the juice of Onions, of either of them two ounces, of the leaves of Rosemary stamped, one handful, of the oil of bitter Almonds, three ounces, and one white gross Eel chopped and cut in small pieces: mix them all together, and distil them, and the liquor which cometh thereof, keep in a clean glass, drop two or three drops thereof into your ear, four or five night's together: and it will help and amend the deaffnes.  
IT is much to be marveled at, that the little Bird, called a Wren, being fastened to a little stick of Hasell, newly gathered: doth turn about and roast himself. Cardanus and Mizaldus.  
THou mayst make fair Pictures, Uesselles, and many other fine things with small coast, and expenses, as followeth. seeth the bark of the Elm tree, and the tops of the Popular tree, and whiles they are very hot, put thereto most pure and fyme lime, until all the same be like cruds of milk. Afterwards put thereto the whitest marble that is, well and finely beaten into powder and seared: and then cast the same in what form you will: then dry them in the shadow. Hieronimus Gardanus.  
HErmes doth say, that an evil Planet in Gancer: doth threaten short life, and continual sickness to the mother of the child then borne.  
Brimstone stamped with Wine, and plastered over the Dugs or Paps of Women: breaks the hardness of them. Isac.  
WAter Mints stamped and laid to the mids of the brow, and to the nape of the neck of one that is mad: will much help and relieve him. But first tickle him on the brow, and it will dispose him to sleep: and then apply it to him as is beforesaid. But if he be far gone, that it will not help him: then take a Tench, and cleave the Tench in the mids, and so warm, lay the one part to his brow, and the other to the nape of his neck: and without doubt it will help him, if ever he shall have help. This I took out of an excellent written book.  
FOr burning with sire. Take oil Olyffe, and put it into cold water, and stir it well together, till it be well mixed: then anoint the burned place therewith, and lay a wort leaf upon it, and it will help it speedily. Proved.  
Stamp Mallows and garlic together, and mingle it well with white Wine, then strain it well, and drink a good draft thereof nine times: and it will make thee make water, of what occasion soever the same is stopped. This is affirmed for truth.  
IF you will bring forth or hatch Eggs without a Hen, cover your Eggs in hot Horse dung: (so that the bigger part of the Egg be upward,) but every fift or sixth day, shift them with new Horse dung, with a temperate heat, as the heat of a Hen. But remember that the Eggs must be turned: and about the time of the hatching, or when they should come forth of the shell: put them under a Hen. Mizaldus.  
ALthough the fruit of a Medler tree by nature be restrictive or binding, nevertheless the powder of him doth vehemently break the Stones in the reins, and drives them forth. Which Antonius Musa an excellent Physician doth witness, that he hath proved with most happy success on himself. Mizaldus.  
THe blood of an Hare dried & made in powder, and thrown upon flesh newly roasted or sodden: makes the same flesh seem to be bloody and corrupt. So that they that be present, and sees the same, (unless such as knows the secret thereof,) will loathe to eat thereof. Mizaldus.  
THe ancient wise men have said, that he that is taken prisoner in the hour of the Sun: shall escape within the space of one month: and in the hour of Venus, he shall escape at the end of forty days: and in the hour of Mercury, he shall have long imprisonment: and he that is taken prisoner in the hour of the Moon, his business & state shallbe changed, according to the applications which the moon hath with fortunate and Infortunate Planets: whereby the easiness and slowness of his delivering shall be esteemed. Also, he that is taken prisoner in the hour of Saturn, he shall endure long imprisonment: and he that is taken prisoner in the hour of jupiter, he shall be delivered quickly. And they that be taken prisoner in the hour of Mars, many sorrows and troubles shall happen to them during their imprisonment. For he shall be put in setters, and shall be beaten, and he shall suffer great sorrows and labours. Haly Abenragel.  
THis medicine following, will surely heal a scald head. Take oil Olyffe, and put it into a dish with fair water, and beat or stir them well together, as you would make butter: then take it up, and put it into a vessel, and put powder of Brimstone and May Butter thereto, & make an ointment thereof: wherewith anoint the sore head, and doubtless it will heal it.  
woodbind leaves stamped, and laid upon Warts, (using the same half a dozen times,) will quite destroy them.  
FRaunces Marquis of Mantua, did so instruct or teach a Dog, that he used him as a very good servant, in calling of such of the Court as he would. Blondus.  
A Benzoar, an excellent Physician among the Arabians: declares that once there was such a famine in his country: that the people was driven to pluck out the dead bodies out of their graves, & did suck the marrow of their bones. A thing horrible to be heard, but more horrible to be done: from which need or hunger, I beseech God keep us.  
IF the seeds that are found in the round knobs, of the lesser Burr leaf, be made in very fine powder, and so given with a little good and pure white Wine: it purgeth the sand marvelous effectually from the reins, but more speedily: if it be droonke with Aqua vite. Mizaldus had this of one that proved it.  
IF you seeth Mugwoort in water, and plaster it hot upon the Navel and thighs of a Woman labouring with child: it causeth both child, birth, and the after burden also: but if it tarry long there, it will 'cause the Matrix to follow. Rogerius.  
FOr scalding and burning that it be not seen. Take sheeps suet, and sheeps dung, and the inner rind of Eldern, and boil them all together, then strain them through a course canvas cloth, and so keep it in some clean vessel: which, when you do occupy, you must melt it in a saucer, or some other thing, and lay it on the burned place with a feather. proved.  
TO draw out a tooth: fill an earthen pot with Emmets or Ants, and their Eggs, and set the same pot in hot embers so long, until all be burned in to ashes: and when any tooth doth ache, which you would draw forth without pain: then take of the same Ants and their eggs made in fine powder, and touch the tooth therewith: and it will fall out.  
Anoint the freckled face with the blood of a Hare, or of a Bull: and it will do them away, and make the skin fair. Proved.  
THis following will help the hardness of the side, called the Elf cake. Take the root of Gladen, and make powder thereof, and give the diseased party half a spoonful thereof to drink in white Wine, and let him eat so much thereof in his Pottage at one time: & it will help him within a while. This was told me for a very truth.  
MUgwoort steeped in Rose water, doth help trembling or shaking hands: if they be washed therewith. Mizaldus.  
YOu shall know whether the Toad stone called, Crapaudina, be the right and perfect stone or not. Hold the stone before a Toad, so that he may see it, and if it be a right & true stone: the Toad will leap toward it, and make as though he would snatch it from you. (He envieth so much that man should have that stone.) This was credibly told Mizaldus for truth, by one of the French Kings Physicians, which affirmed that he did see the trial thereof.  
garlic being sown when the Moon is under the earth, and plucked up when the Moon is above the earth: it is said, that then his stinking smell will be gone. Sotion Grecus. And Palladius reports, that Garlic will be made the sweeter: if in the planting therrof, you do set the stones of olives round about it. Or else if you set the Garlic bruised.  
Say a Sponge upon any ache or gout, dypte in warm wine of the decoction of Coomyn: and it will draw out the hurtful humours. It hath been proved. Petrus Hisp.  
IF in the degree of the Ascendent, or nigh unto it, within two degrees, there is an evil Planet: It is an argument of the death of the party that did fall sick at that time: or for whom the question is then asked, for the state of his sickness. And if it be in a movable sign, it betokens that the sick shall die within so many days, as the said evil Planette is degrees, from the degree of the Ascendent: if in a fixed sign, than it signifies a long time: (that is, as I have tried, every degree a month,) if in a common sign: it signifies a mean time between both, (that is as I have found, every degree a week.) johannes Ganivetus. But you must beware, (if the said Planet be direct) that he doth apply to the degree ascending.  
IF you take the outward rind of the Radish root, and the herb Marcury, of either one ounce, of Saffern three grains, of Cassia Lignea, finely powdered, one dram, the juice of savin, two drams, and then mix them, and let them all be beaten together, and then tie the same in a fine linen cloth, that is thin, and then join it to the neck of the Matryx of a Woman that is in her travel, and in the hour of the birth: (which else should bring forth her child with difficulty,) by and by she will be brought to bed. It is a secret. Benedictus victorius favent.  
HE in whose Nativity Venus is conjunct, or joined with Mercury, and they both being under the beams of the Sun, shallbe gelded. jotromath. Guat. riff.  
IF you pluck out one of the eyes of a black Dog, whiles he is living, and will carry it with you: it will make that no Dogs shall bark at you: yea, though you walk among them. But it will be more sure, if you put thereto a little of the heart of a Wolf. Sextus Platonicus, and Albertus.  
THe juice of Knotgrass, drunk with the powder of seven Pepper corns, before the fit: doth quite put away the quarten ague. But it is said, that the herb must be gathered upon a Thursday, and the juice then likewise there of must be gotten and strained, (the Moon discreasing, which is between the full Moon and the change.) Mizaldus had this out of an old book of Secrets, written with the hand of one called janus, or Faunus.  
A Bath wherein Emmets, or Ants and their Eggs, (being stamped) have been sodden: doth quickly heal an old, and almost incurable joint sickness. Proved.  
IF they that have the falling sickness, do use to receive twice or thrice in the week, at their going to bed, one of these little pills following: without doubt they will be hole thereof howsoever it comes. Take of the best Castoreum, Assafoetida, of either half a dram▪ of the root of Pyony finely powdered, one dram, Aromaticum Rosatum, two drams, mix them together with the syrup of Mynts, and make thereof seven pills, (you may have all this at the Apothecaries.) This is a proved secret. Emperica benedicti.  
AN excellent ointment for the gout. Take three pound of Walwoort, and stamp it well, then melt one pound of May butter, & put thereto: and let them stand so nine days together, then boil the same half an hour on the fire, then strain it through a canvas, and so anoint the pained place therewith. It is a notable and proved thing, not much unlike to one in this book, to that effect, described by Mizald.  
THis medicine following will destroy the itch in any part of the body. Take of oil Debay, one ounce, and one ounce of quicksilver, first killed with fasting spittle, which must be a killing therein with stirring of them together, half an hour: Then therewith anoint the palms of your hands, and the soles of the feet, and within three or four times so doing, it will kill the itch. Proved.  
IF you will make a Candle, that will not be put out: Fill a Cane with the powder of brimstone, & with linen clothe broken in very little pieces, then cover the same with wax, and so set it on fire: and then it will not be put out, neither with bellows nor wind.  
Oil wherein Frogs be sodden, until the flesh be gone from the bones, doth marvelously help all affects of the sinews, and the joints, and also all parts of the body that is cold or benumbed: If the places affected be anointed therewith, being first made warm. This is gotten out of the secrets of janus.  
IF you will bring into one place, or else kill all Worms, and Beasts that are hurtful in a garden. Take the belly or paunch of a Weather newly killed, with all the filth or dung that is in it, and bury the same in the place where they be, and cover it a little with earth: and then within two days thou shalt see all the Worms and vermin gathered thither: if you do thus twice or thrice, you shall make all the hurtful Worms and things to gather together there. And then you may cast earth upon them, or else kill them as you list. Mizaldus did understand that this was proved.  
AN evil Planet in Leo, doth show or betoken short life, of the Father of that Child then borne. Taisnier.  
THe juice of betony, put into the ear something hot, or lieu warm: will both put away pains and the draffnes of the ears, (if there be any,) and also other impediments of the same. I have proved this divers times, and found it excellent good, in this case.  
THis water following is both proved, & precious against Fistulaes': and also it so hardeneth iron, that you may cut an other piece of iron therewith, as easily as if the same were wood. Take of earth worms, and draw of them a water by distillation, and likewise draw water of radish roots, both which waters mixed together, then put therein an edged iron knife, made red hot: the same thus heated and quenched for three or four times by an equal quantity, used at each time, and the knife tempered with an edge: then dip it red hot again into the said water, and then after you may cut any iron safely, and easily therewith: and this water is also marvelous in Fystulaes'.  
IT is said, that if Horses be shod with that iron wherewith any hath been before killed: it makes the same Horses very lively and quick. And if of the same you make a bit or a snaffle, that Horse that hath it in his mouth, will be made tame & easy to be handled, yea: though he be never so wild, stubborn, or given to biting. Rasis et Albertus.  
IF a Horse can not stolen or piss, or else doth the same hardly, or with much grief or pain: beat his body all abouts, easily, mildly, or gently, with the bows of Eldern full of leaves: then after cover his head, neck, and all the body with the same leaves, and it will help him very much. Simoneta Cardinalis.  
A Water whereby the Physician doth marvels, and is reputed as a Prophet. Take the filings of Silver, of Brass, of Iron, of Lead, of Steel, of Gold, of Spume of Silver and Gold, of Storax, according to the richeses and poverty of the patiented: first of all let them be put in the urine of a Boy that is a virgin, the second day in warm white Wine, the third day in the juice of Fennell, the fourth day in the whites of Eggs, the fift day in Woman's milk, that gives suck to a boy, the sixth day in red Wine, the seventh day in seven whites of Eggs, and put that only into a Still at an easy fire, and that that shall distill, keep in a vessel of Gold or Silver. Silence is to be kept of the praise of this water: because it may not be bought. For his virtue doth pallyfie leprous persons: it heals and destroys a pure lepry: it wipes away, or takes away every spot, it conserves youth, it makes the eye fair. I cease to speak of the secrets of this water: for because I fear, lest they that have it, should be puffed up with pride. Trotula de pass. Mulier.  
THis following is a proved thing, for the sounding of the ears or wind in the same. Take Almonds and the kernels of peaches, and let them be clean pilled in hot water, then stamp them, and get oil out of them, and put of the same oil with tents wet in the same into the sounding ears, or otherwise grieved, which tents must be made of fine linen cloth, and do thus with new tents every day once, for the space of nine or ten days: and it will put away the sounding, and other pains of the ears. This I learned of one that came out of Spain. And I proved it to be very true.  
FINIS. Lib. 7.   

❧ The eight Book of Notable things.  
YOu shall make Vinegar by and by, if you power pure & good Wine half sod, into a new earthen vessel, than well covered and stopped: and so the same Pot set in hot scalding water.  
A Wolf first seeing a Man, doth lift up his voice, and as a victor, doth despise him. But if he perceive that the Man hath espied him first, he lays away his fierceness, and can not run. D. Ambrose. Virgil. Plato. Sextus. Platon. And other.  
THere is deadly war between the Hawk and the Eagle, who, sometimes are so fast together in their fight: that they are both taken or catched thereby. Plynius.  
TO take the Birds that eats the seeds that are sown. seeth Garlic, that it may not grow again: for it is said to profit marvelously, if it be thrown unto them: for they that shall eat of it, will be taken with your hand. Mizaldus.  
HE that takes his journey on the Sea, in the hour of Saturn: he shall have many waves, and divers winds, which will cast him to unknown places. Haly Abenragel.  
IF you give one of these pills following every night going to bed, to him that hath the palsy: it will help him, for it is proved. Take of herb ive, Cowslips, betony, of the flowers of Sticados arabici, of each one dram: let them be dried in the shadow, and make them in fine powder, then take good turbith, one dram, of the best Agarick, two drams, Coloquyntyda, half a dram, ginger, Salgem, of either ten grains, good and chosen rhubarb, one dram and a half, spikenard, seven grains, the powder of Hiera simplex galeni. half an ounce, Scamony prepared, one dram: let them all be made in fine powder, and with the juice of herb ive, make a mass of Pylles. The weight to be given at one time is, one pill of one scruple. And mark, if he that hath the palsy, take this ordinary Pylle, (not once every day, but) twice in the week at the lest: you shall see a sudden help in the palsy. These pills may worthily be called glorious pills in the palsy. Emperica benedicti victorij faventini.  
A Certain man finding or catching a Mouse, did hit his wife therewith on the left cheek, being with child, who after was delivered of a Wench: which Wench had, and yet hath, the mark of a Mouse on her left cheek. This was told by a credible woman, who said moreover, that the name of this Wenches Father was, Thomas Bucknam, dwelling at the time in Norfolk, in a certain Town called Dysse. This affyrmes my other writing hereof.  
YOu may turn white Wine into red, without any hurt or detriment, by and by, if the powder of Honey, (that is first sod unto a stony substance, and then dried, & so made in powder,) be cast into white Wine, and mixing it well in the same with rolling it up and down together. The roots of any kind of dock, either new or dried, put into the Wine: will perform the same with less business.  
garlic being stamped with Hogs, or Barrowes grease, and made something thick like an ointment: doth marvelously help them that have the cough, and have taken cold: if their soles of their feet, and their back bone before the fire, be anointed therewith.  
Whosoever hath any fixed Star of the first honour, or magnitude, in the degree of their Horoscope, or in the degree of their Cusp of the tenth house, or in the degree of the Sun by day, or in the degree of the Moon by night: he shall possess great richeses, and honours, than his Ancestors have done: of the Nature of that fixed Star. In deed this is true, if that fixed Star be of a small Latitude: but if it be of a great Latitude, his strength will smallly appear in the Nativity of the Child. Thus much Taisnier.  
THis water following is excellent good to clear a dim sight, if two or three drops thereof be put into the eyes at a time, using it certain days together. Take of the water of Uarueyn, the water of Roses, and the water of Fennell, of each four ounces, white strong wine, three ounces, Tuty preparate, & Sugar candy, of either three drams, Aloes hepatic, two drams: let all them be beaten in fine powder that are to be powdered, and put them into the waters & Wine, mixing all together, and let them remain and stand a whole day, than strain them easily, and keep that liquor in a fair glass, & use it as is before said. This is a precious thing for the sight and the eyes.  
A marvelous medicine for wounds & sores. Take a handful of Arsmart, wet in fair water: then lay it in the wound or sore. After bury the same Arsemart in some moist ground: and the said wound or sore, will afterward miraculously heal, as the same herb doth rot, and consume. This I had of one that affirmed it to be true. I think it is written by Paracellus.  
THe bodies of drowned or dead men, do fleet on the water with their faces and bellies upward: but dead Women, do fleet on the water grovelling, or with their faces downward: contrary to their procreation. But they do not fleet or swim above the water: out of whom the Lungs is taken. etc. Mizaldus.  
THe water of Marygooldes doth help all diseases of the eyes, and takes away all pains of the head. And the smoke of the flowers thereof taken or received by a Fundyble into the secret parts of a Woman, or else otherwise taken: doth bring forth easily the after burden. This secret, Mizaldus did get of an old midwife, which had need of his help otherwise.  
THe head of a Gleade unfeathered, burned, and so much thereof taken with water, and droonke, as you may take up with three fingers: helps them that have the gout. Galenus.  
IF any come or sand to thee in the hour of jupiter, it is for no harm: but rather for good. Therefore doubt it not, and though it should seem to be some harm or loss at the first: yet at length it will turn to good. The oftener one tries it, the truer he shall find it: so that he be not Retrograde or Combust.  
Oak fern, (called Polipodium,) stamped and plastred upon the feet of the Woman traveling of child: causeth the birth of the child, either a live or dead. This was told me for a great secret.  
TAke the grease of a Swine or a Hog, and rub therewith the body of any that is sick, against the heart, or the soles of his feet: then give that grease to a Dog, which if he eat, the party will escape: if not, it is a token that he will die thereof.  
THis following, will help them that be deaf. Take a piece of green Elm, or Ash, and lay it in the fire, and receive the water that cometh out of the ends thereof: and take also a spoonful of the juice of sengreen, and a spoonful of Aqua vite, and a spoonful of the grease of an Eel that is red beneath the navel: boil all these together a little on the fire, and put it into a glass, and when he goeth to bed, put some thereof into his ear lukewarm, and in two or three days, he will be hole, and hear well. This is proved.  
TO draw out a tooth without any pain. Take the goom of ivy, and green ivy leaves, of each a like weight, and burn them to powder, in a new earthen pot, and when it is made in fine powder, mix it together with the milk of Spurge, and put some thereof into the tooth that you would have out, if it be hollow, if not, touch the tooth therewith, and it will fall out: but beware you touch none other tooth therewith.  
AElianus doth report, that no sick person of the Locrenses, should upon pain of death: drink any Wine without the consent & knowledge of the Physician, or any other give it them, without the commandment of the Physician.  
IF you will prove whether there be any water mixed with Wine or not, put an Egg into the Wine: and if the Egg sink into it, there is water mixed with it: if the Egg swim, than it is pure Wine.  
IF the skull of an aged man, be hanged in a dovehouse: pigeons will be increased there, and will live quietly. Albertus, as Mizaldus doth write.  
THe juice of Bay leaves distilled into the cares: doth not permit deafness, nor other strange sounds to abide in the ears. Petrus Hispanus.  
A Question was asked of the state of a certain person being sick, & of what condition the disease was, and whether they should recover thereof, or not. &c: It seemed at the first sight, that the party was hole for whom the question was made, because the Sun was in the tenth house, and the part Fortune in the Ascendent, but many other testimonies showed the contrary: And also Mars did corrupt Venus, Lady or Alumten of the Ascendent, and Venus also was under the beams of the Sun, and began to be Combust, distant from the Sun ten degrees: for Venus was in the xxviii degree of Sagitary, and the Sun in the viii degree of Capricorn: which two degrees in Sagitary did signify two months, (being a common sign,) and the viii degrees in Capricorn being a movable sign, did signify viii days: therefore it was to be doubted of the death of the sick person, about two months and viii days after the question was made: as God would ordain, and so it happened right by the appointment of God, to whom it belongs only to cure, infirmities & griefs, to raise up the dead, and to moderate the earthly bodies, by the heavenly bodies: and to dispose inferior things by means: to whom be glory. Amen. Guilelmus Anglicus in suo tractatu de urina non visa.  
AN excellent medicine for the ache in the bones, or arms, or any other place of the body. Anoint the place where the pain or ache is, with good and pure Aqua Composita by the fire, and let it drink in: do thus three or four times together, then at the last time while it is wet, cast upon the wet place where the ache is, the powder of Olibanum, (which is the fairest and the whitest of the Frankincense,) and so lay a linen cloth upon the powder, and sow it fast, and so let it lie three or four days, until it be well and whole. (Which will be by that time, God willing.) Proved.  
ENuches, (that is, they that be gelded,) be never bald nor gouty. Hippocr.  
IT is a thing worthy of memory, that Lampridius writeth of Heliogabalus, the Roman Emperor: who saith, he had four Hearts in his charet that carried him: and so many Dogs, calling himself Diana: and four Tigers, calling himself Bacchus: and four Lions, calling himself Cibel: and he joined four Women to his charet, as Sesostris King of Egypt, did with four Kings. O proud, presumptuous Prince: he might ride a good while in that charet, ere it would bring him to heaven.  
IT is not good to bury any too hastily, especially: such as have had the Apoplexy, the falling sickness, and that are suffocate with the Strangulation of the womb, called the mother. For such may seem to be dead, and yet revive again within three days: for it was the fourth day after Lazarus died, ere Christ did raise him from death to life: lest any should falsely report, that Lazarus had had the Apoplexy, or the falling sickness, or such like, and therefore but in a trance, or not perfectly dead: whereby the just merit of Christ's marvelous miracle thereof might be darkened. This is the meaning of Lemnius in his second Book of the secret miracles of Nature. Therefore it is very meet to know, whether any such be perfectly dead or not, which you may do by holding a little burning candle at the party's nose, whose mouth is open: or else by setting some little cup or glass full of water to the brim, upon the said parties belly or navel, for by the moving of the flame of the candle, or of the vessel with water: you shall perceive his secret breathing, and whether there be any life in him or not. Camillus.  
AN approved medicine doth follow for the shortness of breath, & doth marvelously help the same: for if half an ounce thereof be given to the patiented, thrice in a natural day, that is three hours before dinner, two hours before supper, and about midnight: continuing the same three or four days and no more: you shall see the diseased healed. Take of Manna elect or chosen, called Manna Granata, two ounces, the flower of Cassia newly drawn, half an ounce, Penyedes three ounces, oil of sweet Almonds being new, one ounce, the lights or Lungs of a Fox, finely beaten and powdered, two ounces, (make the rest in powder that are to be powdered,) then mix all together, and make thereof a Lectuary with the syrup of Hyssop. Emperica benedicti victori● favent. You may have it well made at the Apothecaryes'. I have tried it to be an excellent thing in this case.  
IF you will break the great heat of Wine in the vessel, cast into the same a little piece of cheese: and then you shall see a marvelous thing. And why that is, Georgius valla placentinus, doth teach.  
IF you anoint your hands, or other parts of your body with a Linement made of Nettles, oil, and a little Salt: it will defend the party therewith anointed, from the bitterest cold that is. Mizaldus.  
THere be branches of a bay tree, wrapped up or laid among clothes and books: will keep the same safe from moths, worms, and other corruption. Dioscorides.  
IF you stamp Ants eggs, & strain them through a cloth, and put thereunto the juice of swines grass, or Knot grass, and distill it into the ears: it helps a long continued deafness.  
A Powder to conserve the sight. Take betony, rue, Celondine, Saxifrage, Lovache, Annyse seeds, cinnamon, Eyebryght, of each one handful, Cardamomum, ginger, Fennell, Petroselyne, Hyssop, Organy, Syler mountain, of each one dram, Galinga, one ounce, Sugar, one ounce: Let a powder be made of these, and let it be taken continually with meat, and the sight will be restored and kept. This powder was ordained by Master gerald: whose trial an old man did prove, which used spectacles twelve years, so that without them he could not see great letters: but after he had used this powder only one forty days, he was free, in so much that all the time of his life, he did see, and read the lest letter that was. This Trotula hath written in the later end of his Book, De passionibus mul●erum.  
AN excellent way to get out the water out of swollen legs, whereby to make them as slender as they were before. seeth Oats in water until they be tender: then let the party diseased, hold his leg that is swollen over the vessel, that it may receive the fume or smoke of the sod Oats, and cover the party with some thing that it may go down round about the vessel, and then blisters will come upon the leg or swollen place: out of which will run much water and corruption, then after anoint the place with butter. Do thus four or five several times if need be. This is well proved.  
TWo or three drops of pure Aqua Composita, put into the eyes, morning and evening, every other day, for the space of four or five days: will clear the sight, and help the eyes, of a cold cause marvelously. An old Gentlewoman that tried it on herself, did reveal it to me.  
THe herb Dandelyon, well sod in water, is counted to be a chief help for the ioygning, or knytting of wounds. It is good for Ruptures, or for them that be broken or brusten. etc. Mizaldus.  
A marvelous Water that soon and easily may be prepared, more precious than Gold, is made as followeth. Put fair and clear water into a vessel wherein there was never before any liquor, or before never occupied: and when the water is very hot, power it to quick lime, being before in another new and clean vessel: and let it remain, and rest so long, until you have taken all the fowl spume that fleets above from the same: and that all the Lime be settled to the bottom, and the water very clear: then power out the water very softly, without moving the Lime in the bottom, and keep the same water in a fair clean glass, or some other clean vessel well covered, or stopped until you use the same. It will scantly be believed, what a miraculous virtue and power it hath in all kind of Ulcers, and chief, such as springs of the French Pocks: For the same being bathed or moistened with a linen cloth dypt or wet in the said water something warm, a pretty while: and then a linen clothe well wet in the same, and so laid upon the Ulcer or sore in manner of a plaster, and after renewed again: it wipes clean away all the filth or corruption: it ceaseth the pains: it fills the Ulcer with flesh: and it quite quencheth the heat or inflammations in a small time. Not without a great miracle, for otherwise quick lime doth burn with vehemency of his heat. Let them enjoy this most excellent secret: which for great prayer and prise to many, I have refused to utter. Thus much Mizaldus.  
Myrrh given to drink in warm Wine, the quantity of a big Nut: causeth the deliverance of the the child, either quick or dead. Petrus Hispanus.  
HEre followeth a blessed water for the Gout. Take of Roman Uitryall, two pounds, of distilled Honey, four pints: distill these together, (making the Uitryall first in powder,) and when it is distilled, add to the same the third part thereof, of Aqua vite rectified: which diligently mixed, keep to your use, and anoint the sore or grieved place therewith: Do thus morning and evening, until you feel yourself well, which will be (God willing,) within seven or eight days at the furthest. I wrote this out of an old Book. I think it be also in the new jewel of Health: which is a worthy book and full of many strange and excellent things.  
THe smoke of ivy burned, doth drive away Backs or Reremyse, from that place, where the same smoke is. Anatolius.  
IF any doth ask thee, (having knowledge in Astrology) for any thing wherein he hath a hope to have: mark if the Lord of the eleventh house, apply to the Lord of the Ascendent, or the Lord of the first house, to the Lord of the eleventh house: judge that he shall have the thing, which he hopes to get or have, and he shall come to it. And if the Aspect be of a Trine or sextile, he shall quickly and easily, and by a good mean obtain it: but if it be by a quartile or opposite Aspect, he shall get it with tediousness and labour. Furthermore, if thou dost find the Lord of the eleventh house in an Angle & received: then judge that he shall have the thing which he so hopes to have, even as he desires. Haly Abenragel.  
A Piece of the root of Craw foot, either put into the hollow tooth (if there be any,) or applied to the tooth that acheth: will help the same presently. A sure proved, and often tried medicine.  
Whosoever hath a soreness in the throat, or else any hard swelling there, called the Squinancy, or Angina, and perhaps thereby doth hardly draw his breath: let them apply this following often times in a day, and it will soften it and resolve it. For it is proved. Take of the roots of Hollyock cut in small pieces, and made clean, Camamell, the flowers of Uyolets, the flowers of Mallows, with the roots, of each one handful, let them boil all in a sufficient quantity of water, until the water be consumed: then put to the same, the flower of barley, linseed, and Fenecreeke, well stamped and beaten, of each one handful, the grease of a Hen, one ounce, oil of Camamell, and oil of sweet Almonds, of either a like much: which will be enough to make the plaster ●atte. This I know to be an excellent remedy in this case: which I learned of Benedictus victorius ●auentinus, in his book called Emperica benedicti.  
THis medicine following, will help any pains or weakness of the back. Take a quart of Malmsey, of Balm, Neppe and Maydweede, (which Maydweede is a stinking herb, having a flower like a daisy,) of each one handful: stamp the herbs well, and strain them well into the Malmsey, or put some of the Malmsey in the stamping, to them, and strain it into the rest of the Malmsey, and drink a good draft thereof every morning fasting, and at night when you go to bed: and within three or four days, it will help you perfectly, (God willing.) A notable and often proved medicine.  
Drink the juice of century, once every morning, four days together, and it will make thee sing clear, and speak with a good voice. It cleanseth the breast marvelously. Often proved.  
Mints doth abhor iron, as Rew doth Basyll: for if Mint be given to one that is wounded, he will not easily wax hole: if Mints be mixed with milk: and after taken from the same, and the Rennet or Cheslyp put to the same milk, the same milk will never gather together, or come to crudde. Florentinus in suo Georgico.  
Whosoever falls sick in the hour of Saturn, his infirmity or disease will be prolonged, (or he will be long sick,) and after will die: (of the same sickness.) Haly Abenragel.  
Fill a hollow tooth with crows dung: and it will break the tooth, and take away the pain. Petrus Hispanus.  
GVido Bonatus, writeth a strange thing, which he found out by the science of Astrology, in the Revolution of Henry the Emperor: who had of the said Emperor a yearly stipend, for that he was a man of famous knowledge: which Emperor had many Astrologyans, as well Physicians, as other in his own house. Who for a certain year did travel for the Calculation of the Revolution of the said Nativity of the said Emperor. And every one of them did draw out a figure thereof a like, and they found Mars in the same figure of the Revolution in the Angle of the earth, which is the fourth house under the earth: and they judged Mars then to be of an evil influence, and thereby they judged that the Emperor that year should have hot Fevers of the nature of Mars. And they agreed all in that opinion to the Emperor. Guydo Bonatus being there, had drawn the emperor's Revolution likewise, & he found Mars going towards the fourth house, being then of an evil influence: judged thereby the poison should be ministered to the Emperor to kill him. Therefore he counseled the Emperor, that if any did whisper, or had any privy talk together, or were found meeting or having conference together in his Court, they should be apprehended: Or if any should come to the kitchen not wont, or appointed, that some faithful man of his Court should watch the same. Which charge, was committed to the Master of the emperor's household: which being very diligent therein, espied and found two Knights of the emperor's Court, that were very busy in talk together, and had not only mutual conference together, more than they were wont: but also oftentimes required to come into the kitchen. Whereupon the Master of the household committed them to prison, and then one of them called johannes Franciscus, was sore tormented: but yet he would confess nothing. So that they devised a letter in the name of the said johannes Franciscus, confessing therein the matter, and showed it to his fellow: which when he saw, straight way said, that the said johannes Franciscus was the chief procurer thereof, & enticed him to it. Which uttered, they had their desire: wherefore they were secretly executed. johannes Ganivetus, likewise describes it.  
A Certain Woman that used Mizaldus for her Physician, had a belly did so swell, that it seemed she was not able to carry her burden: from whom (about the end of nine months,) there came an evil shapen mass or piece: whereunto were two ears like the handles of a cup fastened, like arms, with feeling: after that there did fall from her womb, a monster with a crooked bill or beak, with a long & round neck, with brandishing eyes, a sharp tail, marvelous quick of foot: and as soon as it saw any light, it filled the Parlour or place with noise, and so it did run from place to place: but at the last, the Women following it, did smoolder or choked it to death with pillows. After the woman almost werryed, not without great danger of her life, did bring forth a Boy, which was so tormented of the Monster: that they had much to do to christian it with life. Levinus Lemnius is the Author.  
IF Saturn be in the tenth house, in a watery sign, and hath any dignity in the Ascendent: the Child then borne will be a Shipman, or a Sailor, or else he will abide gladly on the water, and will delight in fishing. Taisnier.  
CUluer dung sodden in Wine, till the Wine be consumed, and then emplastred hot to the gout: healeth the same perfectly. Use it morning & evening four or five days together. Petrus Hispanus.  
TO restore the deaf to hearing. Take the root of Houndstung out of the earth, and make a hole in the root, as long and deep as you can, and fill the same hole with Salt, and cover it well that nothing can come within it: then set it in the earth again as it was, and cover it with earth, and let it be there so three days: and at the third days end, take it up, and that which you find therein, keep it in some clean glass, and put some thereof into the deaf ear. Let him use it every evening at his going to bed, until he hear clearly: which will be within a fortnight at the furthest, (God willing.) And when you do it into his ear, let him lie in his bed, that the liquor may enter. This I had out of an old written book. Praise it as it proves.  
TAke two little pieces of good Lycqueres (the bark scraped away,) of the length of a pin, and of the bygnes of two barley straws, & put either of them into your mouth, between your gooms and your cheeks, that is on either side one, and so let them lie all the whole night. Use this every night for a fortnight at the lest: and without doubt it will stop or stay the rheum. For it congeals the thine rheum into thick phlegm: so that you may spit it out. This helped one that was without all hope to be helped.  
TO help the Pocks in the eyes. Take Saffern, and lay it in a saucer with fair water, and let it stand whiles it be yellow, and then drop some of it into the eye with a sether: and it will destroy the Pocks, and save the sight. This I had out of an old book.  
WHen thou dost find the seventh house, and the Lord of the same to be afflicted or Impedite, in the time of the question for the sick: change the Physician, for he shall not profit the sick party, either through his own error, or through the negligence of the sick person, or through them that be about the sick body. The house is afflicted, if Saturn or Mars be therein, or being beholden of their quartile or opposite Aspect: and contrary, if the seventh house be well affected, as if jupiter or Venus is there, take the Physician to whom you make the question, or whom you are determined to take: for he shall profit the sick much, and he will quickly cure the sick to his great praise. Therefore mark the first, or sudden calling or sending for the Physician, for if at that time the seventh house, and the Lord thereof be evil affected, the Physician then called, or sent for, will not profit the sick: But it follows not therefore that the sick shall die. But the Physician if he take him in hand, shall go away without honour. Therefore as soon as thou art called to go to the sick, take counsel of thy Ephemerides, and the celestial figure being erected, mark where the seventh house be well or evil affected: and so thou mayst either refuse, or take the sick in hand. jatromath. Guat. riff.  
PUt the powder of red Coral, in the hole of the tooth: and it will fall out by the root. Petr. Hisp.  
AN excellent medicine, and a noble restorative for Man or Woman, that is brought very low with sickness. Take two pound of Dates, and wash them clean in fair Ale, then cut them, and take out the stones, and the white skins, then cut them small, and beat them in a mortar, till they begin to work like wax: then take a quart of claryfyed Honey, or Sugar, and half an ounce of the powder of long Pepper, as much of Mace, of cloves, Nutmugges, and cinnamon, of each one dram, as much of the powder of Lignum Aloes: beat all these spices together, and seeth the Dates with the Sugar or Honey with an easy fire, and let it seeth, and as it seethes, cast in thereto a little of the powder, by little & little: and stir it with a Splatter of wood, and so do until it come to an Electuary, and then eat every morning and evening thereof, one ounce at one time, and it will renew and restore again his complexion: be he never so low brought. This hath been proved, and it hath done good to many a man and woman.  
A Noble receit for the black jaundice. Take a gallon of Ale, a pint of Honey, and two handful of red nettles, and take a penny worth or two of Saffern, and boil it in the Ale, (the Ale being first skimmed,) and then boil the Honey, and the Nettles therein altogether, and strain it well: and drink every morning a good draft thereof, for the space of a fortnight. For in that space (God willing,) it will clean and perfectly cure the black jaundice.  
Whosoever in the first nine days in May, drinks every morning fasting, a little dish full of the juice of betony: it will do him marvelous much good for the gout. Which he shall perceive the next year following, (if he live so long.)  
IF any that hath the Pleurisy, or is stuffed in the stomach, with tough or hard phlegm: Let him take a s●ru●le, (that is the weight of xxiiii barley 〈◊〉 of the powder of the seeds of Nettles, with the 〈◊〉 of Uyolets, and swallow the same, as by lycking it by little & little: and he shall spit out the Uyscus and tough humour easily. A secret of a Parisian Physician.  
goats will give much milk: if you tie Dyttany about their bellies. Africanus.  
IF Saturn be in the tenth house, in an earthy sign, and hath power or dygnity in the Ascendent, and is oriental of the Sun: he that is then borne, will be a Master Carpenter, or else he will delight in Carpenter ship: but if he be Occidental, he will be a cleanser of Welles or pits, or else a dygger. Taisnier.  
IF the grief of the gout, or ache be too outrageous, Take of Opium, one dram, of Saffern, three drams, mingle them with four or five yolks of Eggs, and plaster the same upon the grief: for it mightily assuageth the pains, and restraineth the corruption.  
A Most approved medicine for the emrod's or piles. Take two or three brycks, and burn them red hot, and put them in some pan under a close stool, and sprinkle them with vinegar, & let the party grieved sit upon the said stool, that the fume thereof may ascend upward to his fundament. Do thus three or four times if need be: and certainly it will help it.  
IF you will make Birds drunk, that you may catch them with your hands. Take such meat as they love, as Wheat, or Beans, or such like: and lay the same to steep in lose of Wine, or in the juice of Humlocks, and sprinkle the same in the place where the Birds use to haunt: and if they do eat thereof, straight ways they will be so giddy, that you may take them with your hands. I wrote this out of an old written book, wherein I know many true things was written.  
A Present help for a Woman that traveleth of child. Take Hyssop, Uerueyn, and Dyttany, of each one handful, stamp them small, and temper them with old Ale, then strain it, and wring out the juice, and give a good draft thereof, to her that traveleth of child to drink: and she will be delivered with speed, and the child saved and she both: so that the child be alive when she drinks it.  
A True medicine for the gout. Take the juice of the flowers of Broome, and the juice of Scali celi, and Honey, as much of one as of an other, and seeth it all together, till it be of the thickness of Honey, and anoint the gouty place therewith. I knew (saith the writer hereof,) a good Priest in London that healed all men and women therewith: for the most part that came to him. And truly I wist it never fail. This, for the great good likelihood of the medicine, and for the faithful affirming: I thought good to register it among the rest.  
IF one pound of Wax, two ounces of quick Brimstone, and as much of quick lime, (putting thereto a little ounce of the oil of Nuts:) a Candle be made with a week of Bumbase, & so put into the water, as soon as ever the quick Lime begins to burn: it will move the rest of things apt for the fire, to burn, even in the mids of the water. Mizaldus.  
A Ram will not put or run at one: if his horns be board through, nigh unto his ears. Mizaldus.  
WHo soever falls sick in the hour of jupiter, he will recover his health quickly. Haly Abenragel. This have I proved to be true many times: and the hour of jupiter is an excellent hour to do any thing, or to take any good thing in hand.  
A little Gunpowder put into a piece of fine linen cloth, and the same put into the hollow tooth, or holden between the teeth, so that it touch the aching tooth: It puts away the tooth ache presently. This is very true.  
IF you distill herb ive, and give the water thereof to be drunken of them that are grieved, or tormented with the gout, anointing also therewith the gouty or grieved place: it will heal or help them assuredly. Great warrantyse was made of this medicine: where I had it.  
A Special medicine for all sudden sickness, and especial of the stomach or breast. Take a spoonful of Aqua vite, and put therein half a spoonful of the powder of Lycqueres, and let it remain therein three hours, & drink it fasting, or at even when you go to bed. It is a sovereign thing for the stomach, or breast.  
Say Saffern on the Navel of them that have the yellow jaundice: and it will help them. This was affirmed to me as proved.  
THis following is an excellent medicine to purge the head of naughty humours, & to help the headache, the swimming of the head, and the mygrym. Wash the roots of Beets, and cut away the uppermost back, then stamp the same, and wring out the juice thereof, then snuff some of it out of a spoon into your nose: and a marvelous effect will follow, and a speedy remedy thereof. A Gentleman a friend of mine told me this, as a most sure and proved thing in this case.  
Cocks that eats garlic, are made stout to fight: therefore travellers do often bite thereof, and also such as follows wars: because it increaseth agylytie, strengtheneth them, and makes them bold. It is given to Horses with bread and Wine, at the hour of the battle or conflict: to make them more fierce, lively, and to suffer more easily their labour and travail. Mizaldus.  
THere were young Mice found with the Persians, in the bellies of mice, that had young mice in their bellies. Aristoteles, as Mizaldus' writeth.  
IF the feet of a great living Toad be cut off, the Moon void of course, that is aspecting none, and hastens towards the conjunction of the Sun, and hanged about the neck of him or her that hath the King's Evil: it so profits, that oftentimes it delyvers the party from the disease. Hieronimus Cardan.  
IF jupiter be in the eleventh house well affected, and not Retrograde, nor Combust, nor in his fall, (as in Capricorn) but in Cancer, Sagitary, or Pisces: it signifies (the Child then borne,) shall be fortunate, happy, and have a common love in all things, chief: if he have any dignity in the Ascendent, or in the place of the Sun, in the Nativity of the day, or in the place of the Moon in the Nativity of the night. Taisnier.  
THis marvelous Water following, will recover the sight again, hindered of any cause: wherewith Constantine the Emperor received his sight. Take three drams of Tutie, made in very small powder, as much of Aloe Epaticum in powder, two drams of fine Sugar, six ounces of rose-water, as much of pure white Wine, mix all together, and put it in some clean vessel of glass, and being well closed and stopped, set it in the Sun a month together, stirring it together once every day: Then take of the same water four or five drops in your eyes morning and evening, and with thus continuing a certain space: it will 'cause the sight to come again as fair as ever it was before. This I know is proved for an excellent water for the eyes, for it cleareth them marvelously. I knew one that could not thread a needle without spectacles, which put not passed two or three drops of the same into their eyes at night: and the next morning, the same party did see well to thread a needle without spectacles.  
TO make a light that never shall fail. Take the Worms that shines in the night, called Gloowoormes, stamp them, and let them stand till the shining matter be above: then, with a feather take of the same shining matter, and mingle it with some quicksilver, and so put it into a Uyall, and hung the same in a dark place: and it will give light. This I had out of an old book, which is not much unlike to the description of Mizaldus.  
IF the liver of a Mouse be given in a Fig, to a Swine: that Swine will follow the giver thereof. Mizaldus.  
THe sound of an Echo, is thought to drive away Bees. Therefore their Hives aught to be placed, where the Echo or the voice doth not sound again. M. Varro.  
Whosoever takes his journey, in the hour of jupiter, he shall have good gain in his substance, and in his business: and he shall have profit and gladness in things unlooked for. Haly.  
IF a Spider be put in a linen clothe a little bruised, and holden to the nose that bleeds, (but touch not the nose therewith, but smell to the same,) by & by the blood will stay, and the nose will leave bleeding. This is very true. For the venomous Spider is so contrary, and such an enemy to man's blood, that the blood draws back, and shuns the Spider presently. A marvelous thing.  
Write what you will, on fair white paper, with the juice of a red Onion, well mixed and tempered with the white of an Egg, which being dry: will appear as though it were only plain paper, without any writing. But if you hold it against the fire, you may then easily read it, or perceive the letters.  
TO gild Iron or Copper. Take the gall of a Bull, and rub the Iron or Copper well therewith, (so that the same before be well burnished) all about, that you would have gilded, and let it after dry in the Sun, foreseeing that there come no dust thereto: and when it is dry, gild upon it as you would do upon Silver.  
seeth an Egg in strong vinegar until it be very hard, then let the same Egg lie three days in Urine, then dry it: and it will be marvelous hard. Or let an Egg lie three days in vinegar, then dry the same at the Sun three days, and it will be very hard.  
CAst Brimstone into a Chafyngdysh, with hot burning coals, and hold a red Rose over the smoke thereof: and it will be white.  
TO separate Gold from any thing gilded. seeth pure Sulphurevyve, (called quick Brimstone,) in water, until half the water be consumed, then wet the part gilded with that water, then dry it at the fire, then strike the same gilded place, with a little Iron: and the Gold will fall from it. This I had out of an old written Book: but how true it is, I know not. Therefore as you try it, so take it.  
TO prove or find out the event of any that is sick. Count the days from the beginning of his, or her sickness: and take the root of an herb which hath so many leaves, as the number of the same days be: tie it, or hung it up, and if the disease be curable: the party will be much recreated. If not, than the party will be sad. But if you can not find an herb that hath so many leaves, put the roots of divers herbs together, the leaves whereof together do perfectly make up the number of the said days, from the beginning of the parties sickness, and use them as before. This Mizaldus had of a certain Italyan, which professed that it is true.  
THe blood of a Hare dried, doth help and stay the bloody flux, or any other lask: though it be never so sore or extreme. So doth the bones of a Man or Woman made into fine powder, and taken in read Wine.  
AN easy plaster for the Gout, but not a little effectual, because I, saith john Arderne, have often times applied it as well to Women as to Men, and have taken away their great pains, with once applying it as well in the feet as in the knees, & other joints. But take heed it be not perceived of the patiented, nor of any other: but it aught to be kept more secret, and dear: and let it be revealed to none: but to thy son, or to thy well beloved friend. I do think it prevails above all other medicines for the gout, & easeth the pain sooner: and it aught to lie five or six days without any moving of it: if it can be so applied. It is made thus. Take of black soap as much as is sufficient, whereunto add of the yolks of raw Eggs, half as much as the Soap, and mix them well together in a dish, until the Soap hath lost his proper colour: which done, lay thereof upon fine flax, and spread it like a plaster, and then apply it to the grieved place, then take the whites of Eggs mixed with Wheat flower, and wet a linen clothe well in the same, & lay the same upon the said plaster, and tie it well upon it, that the plaster remove not away of all the said time: unless there be some great occasion. This I found in an old written book. Which since I have oftentimes proved true, for aches.  
IF you seeth Barley, dry Beans, and Lycqueres cut in pieces, of each a like much, all together in fair water, and drink a good draft thereof with some Sugar, every morning fasting, and at night when you go to bed, five or two days together, or more: It will destroy any Impostume, and shall thereby avoid or cast out the same. This was taken out of a Book of a learned man that had often practised the same to be true. A medicine of small coast, and easy to be made at all times.  
HE will be a good Physician, in whose nativity Mars and Venus are corporally: or by any good Aspect coniunct. Even so if Venus and Mercury be joined, or in conjunction together. Also he will be a perfect Physician, in whose Nativity Mars & Venus are conjunct in the sixth house. jatromath.  
A Very little Bird called Aegithus, doth marvelously disagree with the Ass, who in thorny places doth scratch or rub his ulcers or sores: whereby he doth destroy or break the nests of this Bird: whereupon it comes, that as soon as this Bird hears the voice of the Ass, she doth not only cast the eggs out of her nest: but also her young ones (if she have any,) do fall from the same, astonied with fear. So that the said Bird flies unto the ulcers or sores of the Ass, and pricks or thrust at them with her bill: that she may drive him away from thence. Aristotil. Plin. et Oppianus.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent be Combust in the fourth house, or in the eight house: it signifies, that he that is then borne, shall die in prison. And if he be Combust in the fift house, in a watery sign: it shows he will be given to be drunken. In the sixth house (it shows,) that he will die of a long sickness. Taisnier.  
FINIS. Lib. 8.   

¶ The ninth Book of Notable things.  
Fill an Egg shell full of the juice of Egremony, and give it unto the patiented to drink, whom you suspect to have drunken poison: and it will mightily purge upward all the poison, and with a wonder facilytie healeth the biting of Serpents, and other venomous Beasts. Petrus Hispanus.  
THis Oil or Balm following is of a marvelous virtue against trembling, and the palsy, and it helpeth the memory: anointing the hinder part of the head therewith. Which a most singular Physician kept privy to himself for a time, as a most precious secret: which in the end revealed it to the Author, whereof the making followeth. Take of Galbanum, one pound, (in another place I have read it half a pound,) of gum of ivy, three ounces: these finely beaten a part, mix together: Which after put into a glass body with an head, and distill it in Balneo Marie. After it is distilled, mix therewith one ounce of the oil of Bays, and one pound of good Turpentyne: then let the whole be distilled, and separate the water from the oil, and keep the oil as a precious Balm. The use of this is, that the patiented vexed with the Palsy, convulcons, the cramp and trembling of members, be laid upright, and the oil temperately hot, must be powered upon the the belly, into the hollow and bottom of the Navel, & you shall see after a marvelous working, that may rather be counted divine, then natural, and very much helpeth the palsy, and strengtheneth the memory: used as before. A certain Practysioner applied one drop of this Oil on the patientes forehead that had the Palsy, and another on his Navel, and he incontinent arose as amazed: and was after one hour delivered of the grievous pain of a wound, in a certain place of his body, and the shrunken sinews he anointed with this Oil, and the patiented was suddenly healed. etc. This Oil helpeth deafness, and any sickness proceeding of a cold cause: and helpeth besides the loss of smelling. Arnoldus de villa nova, I take to be the Author hereof.  
THe Hoof of a Beast called Alces, (which is a wild Beast like a fallow Deer, having no joints in his legs,) hath a marvelous virtue and strength against the Falling Evil: for a little piece thereof enclosed in a Ring, and so the same Ring put upon the finger next the little finger: so that the same piece of the Hoof be turned toward the palm of the hand: it doth recreate them marvelous much, that are fallen, and immediately makes them rise up. A little piece of the same bore, and put in the hand, by and by closed into a fist, suddenly it drives away the disease, and raiseth the party that is fallen therewith. Which Lemnius saith he proved once or twice. And Mizaldus saith that he proved it: putting in a little piece of the same in the left ear, (moving it, as scratching a little,) of one that had the falling sickness, and it had very good success, & it was counted for a miracle. johannes Agricola doth say the like is done, if a little piece of the same Hoof be hanged upon one that hath the same disease: so that it may touch the skin. I do hear saith Mizaldus, that the scrapings or filings thereof, is given in Polonia for the same disease. The Hoof of the right hinder foot is to be chosen. But you must take heed of false deceivers, which sells the Hoofs of Oxen or kine, for the true Hoofs of Alces.  
IT is a most sure and proved remedy, as well in curying of spitting of blood, as also in preserving from the same: every day in the morning fasting, to eat a scruple (which is the weight of xxiiii Barley corns) of Rhubarb toasted at the fire. Emperica benedicti faventini.  
Bay Salt well beaten into powder and sifted, and incorporated, or mixed well with the yolk of an Egg, and so laid upon any Carbuncle, plague sore, botch, bile, or impostume: assuredly (by the grace of God,) it will draw to itself all the venom of the plague, or the sore: and break any bile, or other thing. So that in short time the same will be healed. A tried thing.  
IF the forehead of the sick, wax red, and his brows fall down, and his nose wax sharp and cold, and if his left eye become little, and the corner of his eye run, if he turn to the wall, if his ears be cold, or if he may suffer no brightness, and if his womb fall, if he pull straws, or the clothes of his bed, or if he pick often his nosthryls which his fingers, and if he wake much, being a young man: or ●●ing an old man sleep much. These are most certain tokens of death.  
POttage made of the leaves and roots of Strawberries, being eaten fasting, certain days of them that have the jaundice: doth help them perfectly. This was the secret of a certain monk, wherewith he got marvelous much money.  
A Serpent doth so hate the Ash tree, that she will not come nigh the shadow of them. And therefore she goes far from them, both morning and evening: because than they give the longest shadows. And Pliny saith, that he hath proved it, that if one compass a place about with the branches of an Ash tree, so that there be a fire, and a Serpent enclosed in the same, the Serpent will rather go into the fire: then she will seek to escape over, or through the said Ashen branches. etc. Mizaldus.  
IF the Lord of the Ascendent be found in the twelft house: he that is then borne, shall procure his own enemity. Taisnier.  
IUmper berries are medicinable against poisons: for there is none of like operation unto it. And Dioscorides saith also, that they do help against poisons, and stynging of Serpents. Petr. Hispanus.  
TO try whether precious Stones be pure or not. Heat a plate of Iron on the fire, then anoint the same with Oil, and cast or strow on the same, the powder of glass, whereupon say qucke bu●ning coals, and then hold the stone that you would try, a good while over the same coals: (that the stone may be hot, not touching the fire) and then i● the stone loose his colour: he is not good or pure. But if he keep his colour: he is then perfect and right.  
AS principal a medicine as ever was ordained for the bone ache, either in Woman or Man, in what place so ever it be. Take a penny worth of Aqua vite, and an other of oil Debaye, and mix them well together, and anoint the grieved place therewith, (not by the fire,) and it will do away the pain for ever: using it often. But you must warm the Ointment a little in a Saucer before you lay it on, and chafe it well until it be dried in, and cover it warm at all times, until it be hole. Thus I found it written.  
EGremony, Mugwoort, and betony, both leaves and roots stamped with old grease and vinegar or verjuice, and a plaster thereof applied to the grieved or sore pained back: will quite put away the pains and grief thereof. So that you use it three or four times. A sure and proved medicine.  
IF you will catch Moles or Woontes, put garlic, Leeks, or an Onion in the mouths of their holes, or in their enterings into the ground: and you shall see them come, or leap out quickly, as though they were amazed or astonished. Albertus.  
IF the fistula be outward, put into it the juice of Culuerfoote: for it healeth it. If it be inward, drink it: and it healeth also. This is true, for it hath been proved.  
FOr them that have surfeyted, or eaten too much, let them stamp betony, and temper it with hot water and a little Wine, then strain it well, & drink a good draft thereof morning & evening, first and last three days together: and it will thoroughly help him (God willing.) This was told me for a truth.  
THe two horns of a Snail borne upon a man: will pluck away carnal or fleshly lust from the bearer thereof. I had this out of an old written book. But how true it is I know not.  
FOr all evils of the stomach, and for them that can not eat. Take an herb called Centory, & seeth it well in stolen Ale, & when it is well sodden, then stamp it, after that seeth it again in the same Ale, let there be two handful of Centory, to three quarts of Ale, and let them seeth as is before said, to three pints: then put thereto one pint of pure Honey, and boil them together, and keep it in some clean vessel, and give to the party grieved, three spoonful thereof fasting every day, till he be hole and well: for it drives away all the phlegm & corruption from the stomach, & makes him have a great desire to his meat, within four or five days. Often proved.  
THe powder of betony put in Wine, (that is a spoonful of the powder to a draft of Wine,) a little boiled on the fire, being drunk: doth presently help such as have drunk poison before. And whosoever drinks the same in a morning fasting, no poison taken after the same day, can hurt him. This is a proved and tried medicine.  
THe dung of a Cat dried, & so mixed with strong vinegar, that it may be something thick, & therewith any heayrye place rubbed often times, or anointed in a day: it will 'cause that heair will grow no more in that place. Proved of a country man. Mizaldus.  
IF the Lapwing do sing before the Uynes do bud: it is said that it foreshows great plenty of Wine. Mizaldus.  
Whosoever delivers a sum of Money in the hour of jupiter: he shall receive it again well, with gain. Haly Abenragel.  
THis potion or drink following is wondered, and very often proved of me saith Petrus Hispanus: for it killeth the fistula, in what place so ever it be, and draweth out the corrupt and broken bones. Take the roots & leaves of Planten, Strawberry leaves, the leaves or seeds of Hemp, the leaves or seeds of Mustard, the tops of sharp Dock, read Colewoort leaves, and Tansey, let them all seeth in a good quantity of white Wine: after strain all the whole, & put into the straining, as much Honey as shall be thought meet: give thereof unto the patiented early & late, until such time as the clear potion or drink come forth by the mouth of the fistula: which must always be kept open with a silver Pipe put into it, and keep upon it always a red colewoort leaf. It is of a wonderful operation. Petrus Hispanus. And I myself have proved it: and it healed in such manner as is before declared. It is a precious thing.  
DRagans bound to the privities of a Woman in labour: causeth her to be delivered incontinent. But there must be heed taken that it be quickly removed, lest it draw forth the Matrix with all. Petrus Hispanus.  
HEre followeth an excellent Oil, which maketh a fair colour in the face. Take of Almonds scraped, ten pounds, of red Saunders in powder, six ounces, of Cloves, one ounce, of white Wine, four ounces, of rose-water, three ounces: these after they be grossly beaten together, let them lie in a marble mortar close covered, for eight or nine days, beating the same over once a day: then heat it all in an earthen vessel, until it begin to fume and be through hot, and after that put it into a new square bag of linen cloth, than put the same bag into a press, between two smooth plates of Iron, something hot▪ for out will come a red oil wherewith Women may anoint their faces: for it causeth a comely red, and beautiful skin. A secret, and practised of few. This is in the new jewel of Health: a Book of much value, and small price.  
THe grease of an Eel, and the juice of sengreen mixed together, of each a like much, boiled a little, and a little thereof put into the deaf ear, nine nights together: will bring the hearing again, as well as ever it was.  
TAke Salt armoniac, Allom, and Salt Niter, of each a like quantity, with a little filings of Silver, let all be mixed together, then put them unto the fire, that they may be hot: and when they shall cease to smoke, then with the same powder, alone, or else mixed or moistened, with the spettell of your mouth, let Copper or Brass be rubbed therewith: and straight way it will have the colour of Silver.  
Serpent's being within a circle made of Byttony: they can not go out of the same. But rather will die with beating themselves. Plinius.  
IF the Lord of the second house, be in the twelfth house: enemyties will come many times to him that is then borne: for money, or through money. Taisnier.  
PLanten stamped, and the juice wrong out, & put into the hollowness of an Ulcer, with a spout: healeth the same. So doth betony stamped, and applied to a fistula, healeth it. Petrus Hispanus▪ The juice of Cinquefoyle, doth heal the Fistula likewise: if it be put into the same with a spout.  
TO separate Gold from any thing that is gilded. Take Borace and temper it in water, them boil it over the fire, and with the same water, anoint the thing that is gilded, & cast thereon a little of the powder of quick Brimstone: after put it into the fire that it may be made read, then quench it in running water, & you shall find the gold in the bottom of the vessel.  
FOr any pains of the ears, and for them that cannot hear. Take a great Onion, cut a hole therein, and set it in the embers to roast, then fill it full of oil Olyffe, and ever as it drieth, fill it up again, till it be roasted well, then take away the uppermost skin thereof, then strain the Onion through a cloth, and keep it in some close glass: and when you will occupy thereof, put some of it into the hole ear, and let him lie on his sore ear when he goes to bed: and if he use this nine night's, at the furthest: it will help him. Proved.  
FOr the fundament that goeth forth. Take the tops of red nettles, and stamp them in a mortar, than put it into an earthen pot, than put thereto a good portion of white Wine, and set it over the fire, and let it seeth till half the liquor be conconsumed, and give the party diseased a good draft thereof something hot to drink, morning and evening, first and last: for the space of ten days. And also apply the herbs something warm to his fundament: and it will help him perfectly. Proved.  
FOr eyes that be chafed, and the lids turned up, or bleared eyes. Take Arnement, Honey, and the whites of Eggs, of each a like much, temper them well together: then take flax & say the same thereon, then apply the same upon the sore eyes, and it will draw the evil blood out of them, and perfectly heal them. This medicine hath been proved.  
IT is said that a heart doth so abhor a Ram: that he can not abide the sight of him. Aristotil. Plin. And other.  
WHen four or five Planets be conjunct or joined together in the Ascendent, or first house, of any child that is borne: that child will not live long. Expositor doth say, the King of our City did call me, because one of his Women had borne a Son, & the Ascendent was the eight degree of Libra, the term of Mercury, and jupiter was in the same, & also Venus, Mars & Mercury: and the company of the Astrologyans did meet together there: and every one of them did tell his opinion, and I healed my peace: The King said unto me, say what thou can: why dost thou not speak? To whom I answered, give me respite for three days, for if your Son shall pass the third day: you shall see a great miracle of him. And after xxiiii. hours was ended, the Child did rise up to sit, and he spoke, and gave signs with his hand, whereof the King was greatly afraid: And I said, that he would speak some prophesy, or some miracle. Then the King went to the Child, and we with him, to hear what he would say. And the Infant said, I am the Infortunate borne Child, and I am borne to show the loss of the kingdom of Azdexit: and the destruction of the people of Almanaz. And straight way the Child fell down, and died. Haly Abenragel.  
THis following is a Secret, and proved thing for the Palsy, whereof if you give thrice in the day to him that hath the Palsy, half an ounce, that is in the morning three hours before meat, and two hours before supper, and at his going to bed: it will help him thereof. Take of the new and fresh brain of an Hare, broiled or fried, one pound, the juices of Sage, of herb ive, and the juice of the root of Acorus, of each three drams, of pure cinnamon, cloves, black Pepper, of each half a dram, Turpentyne washed with the water of herb ive, three ounces, Sugar dissolved in the water of herb ive, as much as doth suffice: And thereof make a Lectuary, according to art, and know that it is marvelous. Emperica benedicti victorij faventini.  
TO help swollen legs. Take Mallows & seeth them in water, then stamp them well, & strain them: then put thereto Barrowes grease, & fry them together, until it he something thick, & like an ointment: lay some thereof upon a cloth, and make a plaster, and apply it to the sore & swollen leg, and lay a new plaster thereto twice every day, morning and evening, three or four days together: and by that time it will be assuaged, and as small as the other. This was told me by a Woman that had tried it many times.  
ONe never hath the gout, until he hath known a woman (carnally.) Hypocrates.  
ALexandrinus jovianus Pontanus, doth say: that he saw a man was grievously stung or stricken of a Scorpion, which presently was delivered & helped thereof, with drinking of Frankincense, wherein was sealed the sign of Scorpij, or of a Scorpion: being after made in powder. But it must be graven in the stone of a Ring, (Scorpio ascending) the Moon then being there, and placed in the Angle,) and the Frankincense must be sealed with that seal when the Moon is in Scorpio, and found in an Angle. And let it be given in powder as is before said, either in water, or in white wine, or in any other meet liquor.  
HEre ensueth the making of a miraculous Oil, called oil Incombustyble. Take of white Soap the best that may be gotten: and after you have beaten it well and fine, put it into a great Retort, on which power so much weight of Aqua vite, seven times distilled over, than set the Retort into ashes, fyxing a large receiver to it, and very well luted in the joints: this done, make under it a soft fire in the beginning, and increase the fire by little and little, until all be issued forth that will come. Which together will be an Oil and Water, then draw away the receiver, and separate the Water from the Oil, which oil is Incombustle and miraculous in sundry matters, in the work of Alkemy: for this greatly availeth in fyxing the medicine Uolatyle, and serveth well to incorporate with all metals, and ceasneth such as be crude, and likewise sweeteneth when they beegar. This also dissolveth all pains & swellings caused of gross and clammy humours, and healeth in a manner all sorts of wicked Ulcers. And in this (saith the Author) I conceived a great delight, as to work such a mastery, to see so many strange fumes and varyeties: but a more pleasure I took in the practise, as to see how the same availed in every matter whereto it was applied. By which I prove this to be a divine substance, and an oil worthy of eternal memory. And this was the greatest secret, with which that singular Matheus the Hungaryan, did so many great marvels in Milan: for he healed with it the gout, the quarten ague, the pain of the French disease, and the dry scab on the head, with sundry other griefs, for which while he remained in Milan, he was highly esteemed and wondered at. And at the last in his departure from Milan, he revealed it to me, that the only medicine which he used to all the griefs, was this oil and none other. The making of which, he fully uttered unto me at his departing: which before he would not teach to any man. And the same I have many times made, & have also seen such strange practices of it, that to repeat them, I should scantly be believed. Hec de secretis Fallopij.  
TO put a Schedule, or little writing into an Egg, lay an Egg certain days in strong vinegar, until it be soft, and write your name or what you list in a little piece of paper, and fold the paper as hard together as you can: then with a Razor cut the said Egg in the top finely, and advisedly: through the which, put the little paper into the Egg circumspectly, and then put the Egg into cold water, and immediately the shell will be hard as it was before. A proper secret.  
THe quieter Beasts, have the lesser galls: the fearefuller, the greater hearts: the lighter or more leaping, the more liver: the meryar, or more pleasant, the greater Spleen: and the greater voice, the more Lyghts. Much like to these verses following.  
Cor ardet, Pulmo loquitur, Fel commovet Iras:  
Splen ridere facit, cogit amare jecur.  
That is.  
The heart doth burn, the Lungs do speak,  
the Gall to ire doth move:  
The Spleen or milt doth make us laugh,  
the liver makes us love.  Mizaldus. 
CAuda Draconis, in the second house, (called the house of Substance:) signifies the child then borne, shall wastefully consume and spend his goods, or signifies the loss thereof. And that he shall come to poverty and open misery. Haly Abenragel.  
A Grymony is of wonderful profit in medicines, especially: against hollow wounds & ulcers. Petr. Hispanus. And Trotula saith, that though the fistula that penetrates to the eyes, is incurable: yet some do witness that such a fistula may be cured, by Agremony alone, by often using it, either in drink, or in powder. Filipendula is good for the same, and the grains (o● little round things,) that are found in the end of the root. Gordonius allegeth Egremony to be the best and surest medicine, for the curing of a fistula.  
FOr the web or spot in the eye. Take the great bone of the Goose wing, (the elder the better, for though it be a year old it is not the worse,) break it, & take out the marrow that is within it: then put some of it upon the web, or in the spot, and it will break it, and save the sight. Proved.  
THe virtues of Tormentyl. This herb comforteth the sight, & cleanseth the body of divers maladies: the powder thereof is good to clarify the sight of the eyes, though one be blind. And this herb is dressed on this manner. Take the herb with the root, & seeth i● with white Wine, till the third part be sodden away: and give him that is blind to drink of this liquor nine days in the morning cold, and at night blood warm: and within that time he will recover his sight (by God's grace.) But if the sight of the eye be hurt, take also the herb and stamp it, and seeth it in white Wine, with a little water put into the Wine, than lay or spread the herbs on a linen cloth, & bind it upon his eye or eyes: and it brings a wonderful help. If thou stamp this herb with the root, a good quantity, and put it into a little vessel full of Wine, and let it remain therein three months. Whosoever drinks often of this Wine, though he hath been blind nine years: he will recover his sight again. This I had out of an old written book, which doth much agreed with Petrus Hispanus, in this case: whose mind thereof I have mentioned, in another place of this book.  
IF the part of Fortune be Cadent from the Ascendent, and doth not behold there the light or Lumynary of the time, and his Lord be weak, and Infortunate, & removed from an angle, not beholding the part of Fortune, & the Lord of the house of substance be evil affected of evil Planets, or of the beams of the Sun: (which destroys & scatters,) it signifies that he or she that is then borne, shallbe poor, a wretch, & that he will not be able to get his own living, and that is like to live of almos. Haly Abenragel.  
THis following is a secret, and approved medicine for them that are short breathed: very good for the poor (because it is not coastly.) Take of the roots of Hollyocke dried in the shadow, one pound, (made in fine powder,) clarified Honey, four pound: set them over a fire, and stir them together, until it be in the form of a Lectuary, whereof let the patiented take often: and he will be whole. Emperica benedicti victorij Favent.  
A Perfect and most sure and proved remedy, and a rare secret, for the helping of women's sore breasts that be swollen & full of pain: which was revealed unto me by an old woman: who said that the Lady Owen, Doctor Owen's wife, used it to women in this case very much, who kept it as a great secret. The medicine followeth. Stamp or bruise nine little worms, of some called Swine lice, (which commonly will be found between the bark and wood of old or dry trees, which have many feet, and being touched, they become round as a button,) in eight or nine spoonfuls of drink, let them remain therein all night, and the next morning strain the same drink, and let the diseased woman drink the same a little warmed, at one draft, and then let her say to her breast, a two or three fold linen clothe warmed: the next morning, let her take eight of the same little worms in drink, in such order as before, & the third morning seven, & the fourth morning six, & so every morning following one less: discreasing one every morning, until nine mornings be ended, on which ninth morning she must take but one of them, as it will fall out by the discreasing one every day. And if she be not then thoroughly hole of her breast, let her increase every morning one immediately following: until she hath received nine at one time, according to the order before appointed. A rare and notable thing, if it be true: for I never proved it.  
FOr the swelling of arms, legs, or feet. Take Lyn seed, Wheat bran, Brockleme, Chicken weed, groundsel, of each one handful, and one pottle of white Wine: seeth them all together, till it be thick, and lay a plaster thereof to the place that is swollen, as hot as the party can suffer the same: and it will take it away, and help him within three or four plasters. Proved.  
TO help a stinking breath that comes from the stomach. Take two handful of Coomyn seed, and beat it into powder, then seeth it in a pottle of white Wine, until a quart thereof be wasted away: then give the party a good draft thereof first and last, as hot as he may suffer it, and it will make him have a sweet breath within fifteen days. This is proved.  
Mark what Planet is ruler of the twelft house, & the day that bears the name of that Planet, will be unlucky to the Child borne at that time. And many times will have mishaps of that day: Which by long experience is found true.  
PUt the feet of Hens in hot embers, till the scales or skin thereof be separated and shrunk from the legs: and with the same skin warm, rub warts three or four times or more, and it will drive them away. Petrus Hispanus.  
IF you will do away or consume a Wen, do as followeth. Bind fast the Wen, then take Uerdygrease, Brimstone, Soap, oil of Eggs, Allom and Honey, of each a like much, and temper them together, and lay it thereto: and it will do away the Wen, and heal it without doubt.  
A singular oil & very rare, which causeth a comely face, and maketh the person merry which useth it, yea, strong & hardy to fight: the making whereof doth follow. Take one pound or two of Hemp seed, which after the finely beating thereof, sprinkle & wet it with a little Wine, than put all the same into a new earthen pan glazed, and set it over the fire: heat it so long, until you can not suffer your hand in it, after put the same substance hot into square bags, which wring hard out, in a press, and an oil will come forth very profitable: whereof if any drinketh to the quantity of an ounce at a time, it maketh him pleasant and merry: and if a Soldier drink it, it will make him both fierce and hardy to fight, without any fear or doubt of his enemy. And also it is profitable to Women, in that it maketh them merry, & coomly to see too: and in this manner you may draw out an oil out of all seeds. This is in the new jewel of Health.  
A Notable and often proved medicine for a Sciatica, ache, gout, or other pain or grief. Take a pint of pure Aqua Composita, one Beasts gall, and one ounce o●●epper beaten into powder, boil them all together ●nt●ll half the Aqua vite be consumed: then lay so●e thereo● on a cloth like a plaster, and apply it something hot to the grieved place, and let it lie twelve hours unremoved, and do thus four or five times if need be: for it is a present help.  
A Precious Water for eyes that be fair & clear, and yet are blind. Take Smalladge, red Fennell, Rew, Uarueyn, Bettany, Egremony, five leaved Grass, Pympernel, Eybright, Sage, Celendyne, of each one quarter of a pound, wash them clean, and stamp them in a fair brazen mortar, or in a pan, then take the powder of fifteen Pepper corns finely seared, and a pint of good white Wine, and do them to the herbs, and also take three spoonful of life Honey, and fifteen spoonful of the urine of a Boy that is an innocent: and mix them all together, and boil them over the fire a little while: and strain all through a cloth, and keep it in a glass well stopped, until you occupy it: and with a feather do it into the sore eyes, and if it dry away, temper it with white Wine again. This is a medicine for all manner of evils of sore eyes, to make a man see, if ever he shall see, within fifteen days on warrantyse: by the grace of God. This I took out of an ancient written book.  
Every one that is borne, whose degree of the seventh house is the term of an evil Planet, he shall d●e a fowl death. And if it be the term of a good Planet, he shall die a fair and good death. Haly Abenragell.  
IF you rub warts with Egremony, stamped and mixed with vinegar, and also plastred upon them: it taketh them away clean. And also if Purslane be rubbed upon them: it pulleth them up die the roots. Petr. Hispanus.  
FOr the cods that be swollen. Take the powder of Coomyn seed, Barley meal, and Honey, of each a like much, fry them together with a little Sheep suet, and bind the same as a plaster all about the Cods: and it will help it. Proved.  
THis following will break a bile, Botch, or a Felon. Lay first thereto some posset crud, and let it not be removed of twelve hours, and that will gather the matter together and make it tender. But if once applying of the posset crud do it not, then apply thereof to it twice or thrice: then take unquenched lime, and cast upon it some fair spring water, and mix the same with black Soap, and lay to the sore a piece thereof, according to the greatness that you would have the hole of the sore, and when it is brook, then wash it with white Wine a little heated: and so heal it with Butter & powder of Sugar mixed together. This is a sure and approved thing.  
A Notable secret for all incurable aches & pains in the joints where ever they be. Take all the whole horn that a Buck casts off (the later the better,) cast away the scawpe, take nothing but the horn, cut the same in shivers or pieces, then seeth the same in a gallon of fair water, until all be comed to a pint, or some thing more: then cast away the pieces of the horn, and then let that in the vessel stand until it be cold, which then will be like a jelly. And when you will occupy thereof, warm some of it in a saucer, or some other convenient thing, & then anoint the grieved place therewith by the fire morning and evening, & let it drink in by the heat of the fire: and it will help and heal it thoroughly for ever, (God willing,) within nine or ten dressings. This is very true, and well proved: which a friend of mine told me, that helped himself of such an ache therewith, that neither counsel of Physicians, practise of Surgeons, nor yet the long using of the Baths, could ease: whereby he spent much money in vain, until a Wench by chance told him this excellent remedy. Which as she said a noble man of this Realm, did learn beyond the Seas: who hath revealed it since to the great commodity and help of many.  
FOr swollen or sore throats, a rare and sure remedy. Rub your hand on the bore earth or ground, and then therewith rub the sore or swoolne throat: if presently you do thus three several times, the swelling & pain will miraculously go away. This was taught me by a friend of mine, that did know it to be true by proof.  
AN excellent remedy for a great heat, & pricking in the eyes. Fill an Egg she'll newly emptied, with the juice of sengreen, & set it in the hot embers, and skym of the green baggage from it, and then it will be a water, then strain it, and keep it in a glass, and put some of it into the hot eyes, four or five nights together: and it will cease the burning and pricking thereof quickly. Often proved.  
HE shall scantly or never die an evil death: that hath a good Planet in his viii house. Haly Aben.  
A wonderful drink against bruisings, and it helpeth such marvelously that are bruised through falling. Take Egremony, betony, Sage, Planten, ivy leaves, Rosepearslie, stamp them together, and mix Wine thereto: give the patiented it often to drink, till he be hole. A true and tried medicine. I think that Petrus Hispanus hath the same.  
IF you burn four ounces of Turpentine, upon a hot or burning plate of Iron, until it may be made in powder, and then mix two drams there of, with four ounces of the water of Saxifrage, and give it twice in a week, early in a morning to th●m that have the stone in their blather, and so continue it two months: he shall not only be preserved from breeding of the stone in the blather: but also it will burst and drive forth the stone bred there already. This is proved, and a secret, and is to be kept well in mind. Benedictus victorius Faventinus.  
IF Lavender be well sod in water, and then strained, and half a pint thereof droonke daily first and last, for the space of a fortnight: it will heal them that have the Palsy. This was found in an old written book.  
AN excellent and speedy remedy for many diseases, and chief for the stomach. mix two spoonful of Salad oil, with two spoonful of pure Aqua vite, and drink all the same in the morning at one time, do so six or seven mornings together. It is a notable and often proved remedy.  
FOr the Strangury, a strange medicine. Take a pint of good Aqua composita, and put a good handful of ivy leaves therein, & keep the vessel well stopped, & the ivy leaves will consume therein, use to drink of the same three or four spoonfuls at one time, morning and evening, first & last, five or six days together: and you shall see a marvelous help thereof.  
THis following is a proved medicine for the ache in the huckle bone, called the Sciatica. Take a pound of good black Soap, one pint of good Aqua vite, half a pint of Salad oil, and a quarter of a pint of the juice of Rew, seeth them and stir them all together over an easy fire, until it be something thick, and that it may be made in a plaster: then spread some thereof upon a piece of leather, and apply it to the ache or pained place, and let it lie thereon unremoved, three days and three night's: and if the pain be not then gone, then apply such an other plaster thereto, and remove it not of so long, and it will help it certainly. This was told me by one that knew it often proved.  
THe powder of white hard Sugar, put into a bloudshotten eye, or that is some thing dim of sight: It helps the same, and mends the sight very well. Especially, if you put afterward a little Rose water into the eye. This I have proved divers times to be true. Yea, and I think if it were used, it would consume the web of the eye, at length.  
HAly saith, that he that begins to set forward his journey in sailing, or enters to go to the Sea in the hour of Saturn, he will be drowned: or else will be lost by the invasion of Pirates or other: or else the fierceness or great raging of the Sea will throw him to the land, where he shall suffer shipwreck. Or else into far islands he shallbe carried, (perhaps unknown to him.) Which of truth hath always happened to that Ship, (that then sets forward,) as the book of Natures did contain: which as he hath diligently proved, and read, which chief entreats of the judgements of hours. And the said Haly saith further, as followeth: when a certain ship did set forth or forward in the hour of Saturn, I said to one of my fellows, which understood some thing in this Science: all these men are given to be lost, and within a while after they all perished. Thus much saith Haly. And in beginning of long journeys as well by Land as by Sea, in this hour I have known much harm and mischief to follow: Which although many do not, nor will believe to be true, because they know neither this excellent Science, neither the proof of these things: yet many that be wise and learned, and that have paid full dearly for the proving thereof: doth think this no lie. But if some of them did know the same hour, and should practise some such like thing therein: the event thereof would teach them I think, not to be so incredulous. I know (I thank God therefore) that no harm shall happen to the children of God: for he will so guide them, that neither man nor devil, nor any other thing can destroy them, though in this world they may seem to hurt them. And as he doth preserve them from harm, even so he appoints them their times to walk in, & the very beginning of their journeys: Assured and am fully satisfied, that he by his divine providence, makes them avoid that hour, & other evil times: and the wicked and ungodly have happened of that time, to their destruction. Therefore for my part, I attribute nothing to the time, but all honour to God that made the time: whose glory and power is to be extolled, that foreshows such things to man, by such hours or tyme.  
BLack sheeps wool, mixed and chafed by the fire, with fresh butter, and the deaf ear stopped therewith at night, and thus used nine or ten night's together: it helpeth deafness perfectly, and speedily. A proved thing.  
HEre followeth a notable and excellent Aqua vite. Take Galengale, Cucubarum, Ginger, Nutmugs Cloves, cinnamon, of every one an ounce, fresh sage, four ounces, water that is distilled six times out of pure & good Wine, ten ounces: put them all together, and let them remain so in a close clean vessel three days: then distill the same, & keep that that is distilled in a clean & close vessel. Whosoever drinks a nut shell full of this water every day: it will preserve their bodies marvelously, and keep them from many diseases, and bring them to old age. It is said that M. Gallus, Physician to Charles the Emperor, used this water, and lived a hundredth and four and twenty years. Georg. Alapide devised this water.  
IF you desire to have sweet water forthwith, or by and by: put two or three drops of oil of Spyke, in a good deal of pure water, and chafe it together in a glass with a narrow mouth. Euonymus.  
AN excellent oil for cold aches. Take the wood of ivy dried, cut the wood in little pieces, and of the berries, and gum of ivy, of each a like weight: let them be put in an earthen vessel, boored through in the bottom, in two or three places: and then let an other pot be set under it in the earth, and join the bottom of the upper pot unto the mouth of the neither with clay or paste, & the upper pot must stand wholly above the ground: then make a fire on every side, and the oil will distill black into the neither vessel. This oil before all oils, healeth the griefs of the joints of a cold cause. This is proved to be a notable oil in this case. Rogerius seems to be the Author hereof. As appears in Euonymus.  
IF you put out the white of a Hen's egg, and fill up the same egg with the juice of Flower deluce, and mix the yolk and it well together, then warming it a little in the hot ashes, and so give it in the morning to them that have the dropsy: it will avoid downward the dropsy water above measure. This is proved to be true. Much like unto this, Benedictus victorius Faventinus writeth for the same cause: but he appoints the juice to be given with Mellicrate.  
A Proper practise to make a Capon to bring up young Chickens. Take a Capon and pull his belly bore of feathers, & after rub the naked place with Nettles, then setting young chickens under him, he will marvelously cherish them then, and bring them kindly up. And the rather if you use him thus for a time: for by that means he is moved the more willingly, to cherish, bring up, and feed: yea, & to love them, as the Hen would do naturally. And the reason thereof is, for that by the pricking of the nettles, he is the rather desirous to couch on the soft down & feathers of the young Chickens, sitting under him. This I had out of the natural and Artificial conclusions of the Scholars of Milan. Translated into English by Th. Hyl.  
ONe Aeschilus was foretold by an Astronomer, that he should be killed by some ruin, or something that should fall upon him, upon a certain day or time: who (to prevent the same,) did walk abroad a certain space about the warned time, & would by no means come into any house, thinking thereby to avoid that danger, unless the heavens should chance to fall: but mark how hard it is to avoid Fate or Gods determined appointment, about the same time foretold by the Astronomer, an Eagle did fly over his head, from whom a stone did fall upon Aeschilus head, & killed him. Whereby we may not only see the man's wisdom and policy is not able to frustrate God's providence: but also that there is a marvelous certainty in the Astrological foreshowing of events, especially, by directions: which Ciprianus Leovitius seems to affirm by this & other notable examples. And sure I am by many proofs & trials, that the events will assuredly happen at the time promised by dyrections, that is: when the Signifyer comes to the very place & minute of the Promissor, accounting for every degree between them one year, & every minute, about six days, if the Signifyer be to be directed by the direct Ascensions: but if the Signifier be to be directed by the obliqne Ascensions, (or else Intermixtim) which is not very easily or soon done, than they sygnify sometimes more, sometimes less, according to their swift or slow ascending. Which dyrections to be infallible, the learned & expert herein cannot choose but affirm. For that they are found as perfect by proof, & as true by trial: as the break of the day, doth assure us of the rising of the Sun.  
IN Lamberge a Town of Schlesia, as johannes Langius writeth, a certain Woman great with child did follow a Priest that had newly washed or bathed his feet: who being taken with such a longing or lust with the sudden sight of his bore feet, that she privily behind his back, did hold his leg with her hands, and out of the same plucked a piece of flesh with her teeth: Nothing regarding the cry of the poor Priest, which cried out both of God and man.  
IF the foot or leg of an Ox, Cow or horse be swollen by chance, mark the ground where the same swollen leg or foot doth stand, & take or grave up with a knife or dagger, a turf or piece of earth in the same place where the same foot did stand, & hung the same turf or piece of earth upon the bough of a white thorn, or of some other tree, (if it be fair or dry wether,) if not: them hung it in some chimney where fire is made: and after as the turf or earth doth dry, so will the swelling cease and the pain go away. This I have proved to be true divers times. And it is practised of many, especially: for Oxen or kine. But the sudden swelling & grief of my horse leg hath been helped therewith, within two or three days, & by none other means. Who lists to prove it, shall find it true: although it be far unlikely.  
THe water wherein Lavender is sod, doth quite put away any spot or steyning in any cloth, Cap or Hat: if the stained place or spotted, be washed or rubbed therewith. It is very true, prove it who will.  
TO make any fowl of what condition the same be, to have the feathers all white. Take the Eggs of what Bird or fowl you will, roll them in the juice of the herb called Mouse ear, or in the juice of Houseleek, or otherwise in oil (after the mind of Cardanus,) and after put the Eggs again in the nest: for after the hatching, the feathers will grow white. This is taken out of the natural and artificial Conclucations of the Scholars of Milan. Translated in English by Thomas Hill.  
IF the figure of a Lion be graved in a thine plate of Gold, when the Sun is in Leone, (that is the sign called the Lion:) So that the Moon behold not then the sixth house, nor the Lord of the Ascendent behold Saturn or Mars, and the Moon then separate or rather free from them: it doth put away the intolerable pains and torments of the back: if it hung at the reins of the back, or touch the same. And if 〈◊〉 be made of the powder of pure Olibanum and goats blood, and after sealed with the same Lion, and after dried, and then being dissolved in white Wine and droonke fasting: it works a marvelous effect against the stone of the reins & of the blather. Andrea's Cordubensis to Gregory the Bishop of Rome.  
THis confection following is a most excellent medicine and remedy for many inward effects, especially: for all fluxes of blood from whence soever they flow, and also other fluxes, moreover for them that have great pains in their backs, and also pains in their liver, or whose liver is not all together well: And Galen the Author hereof saith, (belike for the excellency thereof,) give not this before thou hast received a reward therefore, the making whereof doth follow. Take of cinnamon, Cassialignea opium, of each two drams, Myrrh, both Peppers, Galbanum, of each one dram: let them be stamped, & then mixed with a little clarified Honey, and made in a lump or mass, give thereof at night two round pyls, something bigger than peason, in the soft of a roasted apple, and let not the party drink of two hours after, and if his grief and pains be never so great, he will be in marvelous ease, and quietness within an hour or two after, & so remain the most part of all the night: yea, and perhaps sleep sound and well. You may give it two or three nights together, if the party be strong, but if he be very weak, give it every other night, three or four times: and if the party be in extreme pain, then give it when you list. But if the stomach be full of meat or phlegm, it will show the less effect. Who ever shall prove it, shall find it a worthy thing. I have proved it above a hundredth times.  
A Fine way to make Coral by art, which followeth. Make the horns of Goats (first shaven or scraped) into powder, and let the same steep in strong Lee, made of the Ashes of the wood of an Ash, fy●teene days together: afterward take it out of the said Lee, and mix it with Cinabrium, dissolved in water, and hung it over an easy fire, until it be thick, and if it have then the colour of right Coral: make it in the form or fashion you think good, dry it, and polysh it according to art. This doth Mizaldus describe.  
THe juice gotten out of a read Onion, & three or four drops thereof put into the deaf ear cold, three or four night's when the party goes to bed, helpeth the deafness: be it never so great or ancient. Fear not though it put you to some pain at the first time: for at the second time it will be more easy. This was taught me by one that knew it by proof.  
TO make a Woman that hath a dead child within her, immediately to be delivered thereof. Take the quantity of an Al●on, of a Bulls gall, mix it with two spoonful of Wine, and let her drink it: and she shall avoid it straight. jac. Veckerus.  
Divide an Apple in the mids, and in the one half of the Apple in the mids of it, make a round hole, by cutting a piece out of it, then into the same hole, put a black beetle, and so lay the flat side on the table: and the Apple will move, by the means of the beetle, to the marvel of them that behold it.  
TAke an Apple of Coloquintida, and lay the same to steep in water, a whole night, and after boil woormwood in that water: which water being cast about the chamber, killeth all the fleas therein. Also anoint a staff with the grease of a hedgehog, and lay the same in the mids of the chamber, and all the fleas there will come and cleave to that staff.  
A Certain young Gentlewoman or Lady, trimming and dressing herself, holding then in her mouth, a few pin's, was suddenly & privily strucken between the shoulders, by a certain ruler or Prince (being her Lover,) wherewith she was so suddenly feared & amazed, that she swallowed the pin's which she did hold in her mouth: which pin's she avoided in her urine within two days after without an harm. joh. Langius a learned Physician, is the reporter hereof.  
IF Roses & Lilies be sown nigh together, or that they touch one another, the flowers of them will smell the more pleasantly, & will grow the better. Mizal.  
ONe Apisius got much money, with this most excellent Oil following, and was marvelously esteemed therefore: after whose death the King of Spain did give unto his wife, five hundredth Crowns, for the uttering & disclosing the making thereof, as is manifest in a book made of the same at large by one George Baker, in the English tongue: which hath manifestly showed his honest heart & natural love to his Country. The same Apisius in his life time, & his wife after his death, did help all wounds, old ulcers, aches, pains of the back, & emroddes therewith, & it is marvelous good for the gout: the making of the oil is thus. Take of the most purest and oldest white Wine, one quart, of the oldest oil Olyffe, three pound, Carduus benedictus (called the blessed Thistle,) Ualerian, & the lesser Sage, with the flowers if you can get them, of each a quarter of a pound, of the leaves & flowers of S. john's wort, half a pound: let the herbs and flowers be infused or steeped in the said Wine & oil xxiiii. hours: then the next day let all be put into an earthen vessel leaded, or a vessel of brass upon an easy fire, until the Wine be consumed, moving it still being over the fire, then being taken from the fire & strained, put thereto of Uenys Turpentine, a pound and a half: then let all boil together a quarter of an hour, than put thereto Olibanum, five ounces, Myrrh, three ounces, Sanguis Draconis, one ounce, and let all boil until the Myrrh be dissolved: then put it into a vessel of glass stopped, & let it stand in the hot Sun ten days: before you use this oil, you must wash the sores or wounds with white Wine, wherein must be the powder of Olibanum. I have written this here, because I think thereby many shall have knowledge of this precious Oil: which otherwise should never have heard of it.  
A Sweet water & an unknown, whereof one part mixed with ten quarts of pure water, maketh the whole most sweet. Take Nutmugs, Cloves, Galingale, spikenard, grains of Paradise, Mase, Cinnamon, of every one an ounce, pound or stamp them all, and thereto twenty grains of Musk, or less, as you delight in the smell thereof, power into them a pound & a half of rose-water: let them so remain together in a close vessel four or five days, than put thereto thrice as much rose-water, and distill all the same in a pot or kettle full of water, seething as in Balneo marry, & keep the distilled water in a glass well stopped: to the use before said. Euoni.  
IF an egg be painted with sundry colours, & the same set under a Hen, which sits to bring forth chickens: she will hatch thereof a chicken, having the like feathers unto the colours painted on the Egg. Thomas Hill out of the natural and Artificial conclusions of the Scholars of Milan affirms this.  
IF one make a little rope of the guts of a Wolf, and then bury the same under sand or earth, there will neither Horse nor Sheep go that way: though you beat them with a staff. Albertus.  
IT is said that a Hare doth live ten years, the age of a Cat is so much, a Goat doth live eight years, an Ass thirty years, a Sheep ten years, but the Belwether many times doth live xu years, a Dog. xiiii and sometimes twenty a Bull xu but an Ox because he lacks his stones, doth live twenty a Swine and a Peycocke xxv a Horse twenty and oftentimes xxx there have been Horses that lived fifty years, Pigeons lives naturally viii years, a Turtle & a Partrech xxv years, & also a Ryngdoove, which oftentimes lives xl. years. Mizal.  
THe body of a Byrch tree, cut or scorched, (the spring time going before,) doth yield great plenty of water, which water being droonke, hath a marvelous strength to break the stone in the reins. Matheolus upon Dioscorides, writeth it.  
FINIS. Lib. 9   

¶ The tenth Book of Notable things.  
THere is an evident familiarity between the Olive tree, and the Myrte tree, for as Andronicus reports, the branches of the Myrt tree do pleasantly extend or spread by the olive tree, and the roots of them do mutually embrace each other, nor any other plant: but the Myrt tree will grow well nigh the olive tree. This also Mizaldus doth affirm.  
THe smell of Bitumen raw, or the smoke thereof burned, received by the nose of such as are grievously tormented with the pains of the mother, is a present help or remedy. It is most certainly proved. Wherefore many Women which are grieved with the disease, do hung it about their necks in wool, that they may drive away their fit, by the often smelling thereof. Mizaldus' writeth this. And the learned Doctor Monardus affirms the like thereof.  
THe sparrow Hawk is a fierce enemy to all pigeons, but they are defended of the Kestrel, whose sight and voice the Sparhawke doth fear, which the pigeons or doves knows well enough: for where the Kestrel is, from thence will not the Pigeons go (if the Sparhawke be nigh) through the great trust she hath in the Kestrel her defender. johannes Baptista Porta hath written this.  
THe leaves of a Wyllow tree, as also the bark thereof sod in Wine: doth help them that have the gout: if they be fomented or bathed therewith. Mizal.  
SToflerus an excellent Astronomer, knowing by his Nativity, that he should be in danger to be hurt about a certain day or time: kept himself then within his own house, assured that it was strong enough. The same day or very nigh unto it, that the event should hap, certain of his learned friends and he, as they were reasoning together, did vary in some certain opinion, about the trial whereof as it should seem, he reached to take down one of his books, (being placed among divers other,) when through the lack of a nail, the whole class or shelf where the book was, fell upon his head, and wounded his head very sore. Which doth not only show the worthiness and excellency of Astrology, especially, in a learned and skilful person therein: but also our folly in flying from Fate for that, our wisdom doth lead us into it, when most of all we mean for to shun it. Therefore perfect prayer passeth policy, in preventing of perils.  
THree half penny weight of the powder of the Adamant stone, droonke with the juice of Fennell, draws the water from them that have the dropsy. And the same stone put to the head, takes away quite all the pains thereof. jacobus Hollerus an excellent Physician affirms it.  
IT is a manifest thing, and proved by daily experience, that the bodies of them that be murdered, when they be found, if any of their kindred be then present, or the party or parties that killed or murdered them, or was the cause thereof: Immediately blood will burst forth suddenly, either out of the wound, or nose, or out of some other part of their body. I could allege here a great sort of examples for the verifying thereof, but I omit them: for it is a thing found true by daily experience. Besides that Lucretius, Philip. Melancton. johannes Langius, and Lavinius Lemnius have written thereof.  
Pieces of Amber being put or tied to the hinder part of the head: doth help the running or watrines of the eyes with a marvelous success: and hanged about the neck doth hinder distyllations, that they go not down by the throat. Mizaldus. Besides that, it is proved to be true.  
A Certain Woman went with a dead Child in her womb above four years, which by the counsel of learned Physicians, and expert Surgeons, was drawn from her piecemeal: and the mother did not only live, but also conceived an other Child, as Mathy Cornace, a notable & learned Physician hath affirmed: who was present when the said Woman was cut for the getting out of the said dead Child. Mizaldus reports this.  
IF Eels be suffocated in wine, whosoever shall drink of that wine, (though they have been very much given to wine before, & could scantly abstain from the same,) they will loothe wine, and not be desirous to drink wine after. The green Frogs which use or leaps about springs, if they be suffocated in wine, works the like effect. Mizaldus.  
IF Musaraneus, called a Shrew, (I take it to be the blind Mouse,) doth chance to go over any part of any Beast: that part of the Beast will after be lame. This is known to be true.  
WHo so would have a very white & delicate skin. Let them boil or heat Lytarge of Silver in vinegar distilled: and wash therewith their skin which they desire to have fair, trim and white. This I took out of Mizaldus.  
IN the time of Trajan the Emperor, a certain man having a disease, called the Dissury, did piss with much a do, a knotted Barley straw. Antonius' Mizaldus hath written this. And I knew a Gentleman that after his death being opened, had a pigeons feather stycking in his heart: which feather was showed me by the Surgeon that did cut and open him.  
Oats sodden and the hot fume thereof close received on any lame members, either arms, legs or any other: and then the said members put & holden, a good while in the same sodden Oats, when they may be suffered therein, and the same order used four or five times, (if need be) doth help them perfectly that be lame. This was told me for a very truth by them that knew it, and saw it tried.  
THe tooth of a man hanged at the neck of the party that is tormented with tooth ache, doth take away the pain thereof, especially: if a Bean be put thereto, wherein there is a hole bored, and a louse put therein, and the same bean wrapped in a piece of silk, and then hanged about the party's neck, as is before said. Antonius' Mizaldus.  
THe most whitest frankincense made in very fine powder, and droonke with Wine, (if it be in cold wether or in winter,) or in water wherein Reysens are sod, if it be hot wether, or in Summer,) in the increasing of the Moon, at the rising of the Sun, at noon, & at the setting of the Sun: doth marvelously help and increase the memory. And is very profitable for the brain and the stomach. Rasis is the Author hereof, by the report of Mizaldus.  
ANy part or a piece of the bone of a Man's arm, with the highest part or end of a Goose wing, being carried or borne of them that have the quarten ague: doth cure the same. Mizaldus' fathers this of Geber.  
IF one that hath the Dropsy or the jaundice, shall drink their own urine for certain days together, it will help marvelously. Thus Hermes saith. But Benedictus victorius Faventinus in his practices, affirms for truth: and saith it is certainly proved, that five ounces of the urine of a Boy not polluted, and of a sanguine complexion, mixed with hal●e an ounce of good white Sugar, being droonke every morning early, ●asting for the space of ten days: doth help certainly the jaundice, and also so much drunk at once, a month together in such order, doth help the dropsy perfectly.  
Steep a thread in oil & brimstone mixed together, and compass a glass with that thread in the place where you would have it broken even, or parted, and after kindle the same thread with fire, and do thus so often until that place of the glass be hot, and after compass the same with a thread wet in cold water: and it will part so clean a sunder, as though it had been cut with a sharp pointed Diamond.  
IF they that be swollen and are full of the Dropsy, do lie three days and night's in their beds well covered round about in sodden Barley: it helps & cures them perfectly. This was proved by them that came vexy swollen from Gynny. And one of them that was helped therewith, revealed it unto me: which I am content to publish, to the common commodity of many.  
THe earnest searchers of natural things, say and set forth: that certain worms are bred in the vowels or guts of the Heart, & they are destroyed by the eating of Serpents, which the Heart doth allure with the breath of his nose to come out of their heal or den: and lest the poison of them should hurt him, he goes a pace to some fair Spring of water, and whiles all his whole body is therein unto the lips, little drops or tears distylles out of his eyes, which at length increaseth to a thing, as big as a walnut, and are in manner of a stone, and when he perceives he hath thereby avoided all the poison, and being comed forth of the water: with the rubbing of his eyes at a tree, the same lump or Stone, (being a hindrance to his sight,) he gets away. Which matter or Stone is a thing most effectual against any venom or poison. Many Physicians of great authority and antiquity, are witnesses hereof. julius Scaliger, and Amatus Lucitanus do boast, that they saw such a thing, and they affirm that it may be given effectually with a little wine to them that are infected with the plague: for by the strength and help thereof, so much sweat will come forth of the body, that you would think the whole body, will turn or consume into moisture, with which once giving all the poison or venom is thrust out of the body. The Arabian Physicians calls this Stone Besoard. And thereof Alexipharmaca, a remedy against venoms, Bezoardica. This Antonius Mizaldus writeth. These Besaar stones, being of a most excellent, notable and precious virtue, are now gotten in Peru, in the west indians, and found about ten years past, in certain kind of Beasts that goeth in the mountains of that Country, which are much like to Sheep or kids that are in the Portugal Indyas, by a worthy Spanish Gentleman, called Peter de Osma, who killed some of those Beasts purposely, for the said Besaar stones, which he thought to find in them: but although he looked and searched therefore in the belly, and in other places of one of the eldest and greatest of them: yet he could found none of them, neither would the indians tell him in what place of the Beast they were, saying they knew no such Stones: being loathe he should know that secret. But at the last an Indian Boy, of twelve years of age, told him where to find them. Wherefore the other indians would have killed the Boy, because the indians do much esteem those Stones: for they do offer them unto their Gods, or before their Idols, as one of the most precious things they have. So that by the said Boys revealing, the said Gentleman found the Stones in a certain little purse that the maw of the Beast hath: wherein the herbs doth lie when he chaweth the cud. The said Gentleman gives a marvelous commendation of them in a letter, which he wrote to Doctor Monardus an excellent learned Physician of Civil in Spain, saying: that they are marvelous good against all venom, and against all sorts of poison, as well in meats as otherwise, and in evils of the heart, and to expel and kill worms, and that they have healed such diseases with this Stone, that it is wonderful to be seen, both of Ladies, Gentlemen, and many other: naming many of their names in that letter, saying further: That as a new thing, all such takes it in powder, as have diseases which can not be healed by medicine, & many do heal: and so with many other things he praiseth God, for the great benefits received by the virtues of this Besaar Stone. And the said Doctor Monardus having received of the said Stones from the said Gentleman, doth marvelously praise & extol the said Stones in a worthy work or book made by him of certain trees, oils, plants, and stones of wonderful great and marvelous effects, whose very words thereof, (as much as shall seem needful therefore:) I here do utter. If I would (saith he) put here the great effects, and the diseases which the Stones of Peru have healed, that they which do come from thence do tell me, & that Gentleman doth write merit would make a great book. I will put that only which I have experimented, and the effects that I have understood that they do, and these that have passed by my hands, whereby all credit may be given unto it, and as a thing certain: seeing that there is experience of it, with all assurance and trust, it may be used. Our Occidental Besaar Stones have great virtues, principally they do remedy many persons which be sick of the heart, for the which I have given great quantity of them that have been brought me, and they have made marvelous effects: so much that to many persons which did swounde, by taking it away from them, they were delivered from death. It must be given when they do swoon, and before it come, taking it in the morning fasting with rose-water, if the party have great heat: if not, then with the water of flowers of Oranges, the quantity of four grains, every time made in powder. In all kind of venom, it is the most principal remedy that we know now, & that which hath done best effect, in many that have been poisoned, which have taken it, as well by venom taken at the mouth, as by biting of venomous worms, which are full of poison. It doth truly a marvelous and a manifest work, unto them that have droonke water standing in a stinking lake: being infected with Beasts or varment, which are full of poison, and being swollen immediately after they had droonke it: by taking of this Stone two or three times, they were remedied, as I have seen them after. etc.  
In pestilent Fevers I have given it many times, & surely it doth extinguish and kill the malice of them▪ which is the principal thing that the Physicians should procure in the like diseases. And although he doth take away the cause, & doth withdraw the putrefaction. And if he do not extinguish & take away the malice, the cure is never at an end. For that is it which killeth, & doth the principal hurt. And where there is certain spots in the body like to i'll bitings, which do appear in the like Fevers, the Besaar Stone of our Indians, doth make marvelous effects. Of those which they have brought me, I have spent the most part, giving them in the like diseases, and surely it hath remedied many with marvelous success, and in that which some of them have been spent by me, hath been in swoonings: and surely I have seen in these Stones the effects so great, that it seemeth a thing of wonder. And especially, I have seen these causes more remedied in women, then in men: it is a marvelous thing to be taken, & it hath done manifest effects, where there is melancholy humour, it doth repair him much. And it doth in him & in all things which do result of him a great work, be it universal or particular, in the head, or that as they call Mirarchia, & also in them that have Leprosy: of the Arabienssor, Elephanciacis, of the greeks. It doth profit much in Scabs, in Itchings, in Scuruines, & in all parts of the body that is infected. It maketh a very good work: and doth remedy the evils manifestly. For that this Stone hath property, to heal them. I have given it in quarten agues, & although it taketh not away the quarten, it taketh away the accidents of it, the faintness and sadness, and the grief of the heart: which in these Fevers are common. Surely they do feel with the use of it notable profit, in all large & importunate diseases. etc. It is good to cast into purges, some grains of it, that if the purge do carry venomous medicines, it may rectify and amend them. And if not, it giveth force & strength to the heart, & they work the better. In the Oryental Indyas, they have a custom to purge themselves two times every year: and especially, the noble people of estimation. And after they have purged themselves, they take every morning fasting, four grains of the Besaar Stone with rose-water, or with water made for the purpose, and they say that this doth concern the youth, and doth strengthen the members, & doth preserve them from diseases. And it is a good use, for it can not but do them much good. I have given it to many people, & especially to children and Boys that are tormented with Worms: and I have seen such works as are not to be believed: if they were not seen. This & more hath Doctor Monardus written in his said Book of this Stone, and other worthy and wonderful things. Which book is diligently and truly translated into our english tongue, by one john Frampton Merchant. Which book is titled and called, joyful News out of the new found World: who deserveth great thanks, and continual commendations for publishing such a common commodity to his Country.  
A Water which certainly will heal the Fystulaes'. Take two pound of water that is distilled out of good white Wine, as you still Aqua vite: put thereto of the water of Sage, and of the water of Rosemary, of either five pound, Sugar two pound: distill them all together, and when they are distilled, put too the water distilled, one ounce of Sage, and as much of Rosemary, and when they are stiept together eight days, strain it and use it in curing of Fystulaes'. Euonymus. In which book is many excellent things.  
IF you lay the wieke of a Candle to infuse or steep in the oil of hempseed, and after make a tallow Candle thereof, which if you do light after it be cold: the same Candle will not go out with any wind, so long as the whole Candle lasteth. And in like sort may lyghts be made to serve in the night time, if that fine linen rags be first soaked in the Oil of hempseed, & dipped into mowlten tallow, which so bound or wrought on a staffs end: or otherwise lying in an Iron or plate at the end of a staff. This is taken out of the natural and Artificial clonclusions of the Scholars of Milan. etc.  
THe young Swallows of the first brood, that a Swallow hath, being cut and opened before the full of the Moon: two Stones will be found in their maws, whereof one is of one colour, the other is of divers colours: if these Stones (so that it be before they touch any ground,) be wrapped or enclosed in a Heart skin, and be tied to the arm or about the neck of them that have the falling sickness: it doth heal them of the same disease. Mizaldus' writeth this by the report of an Italyan, which affirmed to him that he had proved it to be true.  
Whosoever shall, especially, the first Frydaye in May, and every other Frydaye in May, before the rising of the Sun: grave up two turfs of new grown grass with the dew upon the same, & then doth tie the grass sides of them together, and shall then say the same in a water in the side of a pond, or in some other water, so that the vehemency of the water doth not remove the said turfs from the place where they be laid, & so letting them lie there unremoved nine or ten days: if at the ten days end, he shall take up the said turfs, and untie or lose the same, he shall find a great sort of young Eels within the same: although there be not one Eel in the same water at the laying there, of the said turfs. And then if he tie the said turfs with the young Eels together again, & lay them again in the same water, a great increase of Eels will after come thereof. This was credibly told me for a very truth, of one that did try the same. I think they breed of the same dew.  
THe vine tree doth not agreed with the bay tree: for with his odor or smell, he is the worse, wherefore when the branches of the vine draws near to the bay tree, he will draw backward, flying the smell of his enemy. Even so the Burr is enemy or doth not agreed with Lentyls. johan. Bap. Por.  
AN Image of a Ram graven or melted in Gold, the first degree of Aries ascending, and jupiter placed in the same, not impedite by any evil Star or Planet, so that the Moon and Venus behold him friendly: is a marvelous help & remedy to them that have a continual headache, (if they wear the same Image of gold.) Laurentius Miniatus, by the report of jovianus Pontanus, did with the same help a friend of his of a continual head ache. Mizaldus.  
IF you will colour or paint the bristles of a Swine with divers colours, when they be well washed, and sod in Allom water, let them be put whiles they be warm, in water cullored with Saffern, if you will have them yellow: or in the juice of Eldern or Walwoort berries, if you will have them of a blue colour: or in water mixed with Flos eris or Uergdygrease: if you will have them of a green colour, and so of other colours. You may prove the same with the feathers of Birds. Mizaldus.  
THe powder of Earthwoormes, of Mice dung, or of a Hearts tooth, put into the holes of teeth, that be woormeaten: doth pluck them up by the roots, or makes them fall out without any other Instrument. Mizaldus.  
IF the Stone that is found in the head of a long Snail, be made in fine powder, and blown in the eye, it puts quite away all the spots thereof, and it destroys the web in the eye, and any other evil in the same. Mizaldus' affyrmes this.  
IN the winter time, a spoonful of Aqua vite sweetened with good Sugar, with a little piece of the purest white bread put into it, lest it should trouble the brain, or do some harm to the Liver, is healthfully given to gross and phlegmatic bodies, that it may concoct the humours, and defend their bodies from the Lethargy, (which is a forgetfulness, and a losing almost of all the senses) and from the Apoplexy, (which is a ceasing as well of the inward senses as of the outward,) and from cold diseases. Lemnius.  
TO make a Candle burn under the water. Take wax, brimstone, & vinegar, of each a like much, boil all these together over the fire, until the vinegar appear all consumed, and then after of that that remains make a Candle: and you shall see the proper effect as above is written. This is taken out of the natural and Artificial conclusions of the Scholars of Milan. Translated by Thomas Hill.  
TAke a Ring that is hollow round about, into which put quicksilver and stop the same fast, that it run not forth, after heat the Ring somewhat in the fire, which being hot, lay on a table or stool, and soon after it will leap or dance of itself, until it be cold. It is proved.  
Quench hot Iron in the juice of hemlocks, three or four times, letting it remain therein every time until it be cold, & the Iron will be soft. Also Cardane writeth, that if you take Oil, putting into it mowlten lead, seven times together, and after quench Iron read hot in that Oil four or five times together, it will make the same Iron soft to work upon.  
A Certain Woman with Child, seeing a Baker's shoulder naked or bore, whiles he did put bread into the Oven, did long or desire so much to eat of the said Baker's shoulder, that she abhorred or loathed all other meat. Her husband having pity of his loving wife, did agreed to give the Baker certain money for every bit that his said wife should bite of his shoulder, and the same Baker suffered the said woman to have two bits at his shoulder: but when she began to bite at it the third time, he was so grieved with pain, that he would suffer her no more to bite at his shoulder. Immediately after the woman travailed, and brought forth three children, two of them a live, and the third dead. johannes Langius is the Author hereof.  
A Notable distilled water as followeth, worthy to be compared to gold. Take one part of Gentyan, and two parts of Centory, stamp them together, then put Wine to them, and let them sook together fyves days, than distill them, keep the water distilled in a close clean vessel: this water droonke, morning and evening, preserveth the body from all kind of diseases, it putteth away all impostumations, it maketh good colour, it resisteth the plague, it healeth the sick of the Ptysicke, it avoideth the stuffed stomach, it breaketh the stones in the reins, it separateth and putteth away the watery humours of the Spleen, it helpeth forward the flowers, if it be droonke nine days together in the morning, & purgeth the belly: also it purgeth all choler and all corrupt blood, it healeth all wounds within the belly, it cleareth the sight, it cureth poisoned bitings. To the healing of wounds, the powder of Centory aught to be put to them. Lullius in his book of waters. Euonymus descrybes this, which is a worthy work.  
PUt quicksilver in a bladder, and lay the bladder in a hot place: and it will skip from place to place, without handling.  
AN excellent water for purifying or cleansing the skin of the face or other parts of the body, which is secret & unknown. Take six new laid Eggs, half a pound of Malmsey, a young Pigeon not wholly feathered, half a pound of new Cheese, coming from the press made of unskymmed milk: eight Oranges, Oil of Tartarus, three ounces, one ounce of Ceruse made in powder, gum Arabic, and Mastic, of either half an ounce, water of bean flowers, eight ounces, rice, four ounces, stieped first a whole day and a night in half a pint of Cream: cut the Oranges in pieces, and stamp them a little, then put all together with the Cream & Rice also. And distill the same also with an easy fire: and keep the water distilled thereof in a clean close stopped glass, and use to rub and wet the face therewith every evening before you go to bed: and every morning wash it clean with water distilled of bean flowers. Use this a fortnight or three weeks together; and you shall found it a notable thing.  
TO make a Glue to hold (or ioygne things) together as hard (or fast) as a stone, an excellent secret. Take unslackt lime, & quench the same with wine, & beat the same into fine powder, mixing therewith both figs & swines grease, and after labour them well together: for this (as Pliny writeth) passeth the hardness of a stone: with which ioygne broken pots or any thing together. Also take greek Pitch, Rosen, and the powder of little stones, these mix together, & when you will occupy of the same, than heat it over the fire, & work therewith, (that is, join any thing therewith,) and it holdeth them together as hard as any nail. Also take of Spuma ferri, one pound, of tile shards (in powder) two pound, of unslackt Lime, four pound, of oil of Lynne seed, as much as shall suffice to prepare, mix & work them together: this Glue is marvelous strong, which neither feareth nor yieldeth to water nor fire. This is of the natural and Artificial conclusions of the Scholars of Milan. Translated into English by Thomas Hill.  
AN Angelic water of a marvelous virtue against blearedness of the eyes, Canker, and burning with fire. Take three ounces of unslackt Lime, and half a pound of rain water, let them stand together in a vessel of glass or tin, three days, then mix & styrrre them together, and let them settle again a whole day & a night, in a vessel well covered, afterward strain them tenderly through a linen cloth, until it be clear, then put into it ten drams of Sal Armoniac, the whitest you can get, beat it finely, & let it be dissolved with long standing, and often moving in the said water: After when it is settled, strain the clean water that standeth above certain times, or else distill it by a filter. This water healeth the spot and web in the eye, if you drop three drops thrice every day into them, continuing so until the eyes be whole: it taketh away also the tears of the eyes, the redness, and the blearedness of the eyes. And also the Canker and burning: It taketh away all spots and stains of cloth, both of Silk and Woollen: if they be washed with it, a little warmed. Furnerius by the report of Euonymus. Besides I have proved it in the like case: therefore I am bold to say it is an excellent thing.  
AN excellent water called the golden water, a balm & a black oil doth follow. Take of clear Turpentine, seven ounces, wash it well with white wine, after take good white Honey three pound, clarify it with a little white wine, over an easy fire, and take of the scoom still from it: then put the Turpentyne to it, mixing them well together: Then power thereto of Aqua vite, four pound, and mix them well in a body of glass, luting it (or stopping it well,) then take bugloss, borage, balm, Sage, Lavender, of each one handful, Hyssop, Camamyle, Yarrow, read Roses, of each one handful, Woormwood, one dram, Rosemary, two handfuls. Then take wood of Aloes, Xilobalsamum, the three Saunders, of each one dram, Mace, Nutmugge, cinnamon, Galanga, Cloves, Cucubes, white and long Pepper, Saffern, Spyknarde, Grains of Paradise, Cardamomum, of each three drams, Zedoarye, half an ounce, Squynant, half a dram, the pills or rinds of Lemons, the seeds of Lemons, Scicadoes Arabike, of each one dram, Calamus Aromaticus, half a dram, Carlinae cardopacij, two ounces, Bistorte, two drams, the root of Flower Deluce, half an ounce, bay berries, Ualeryan, Polypode, of each half an ounce, Licqueres, Anne's seeds, of either half a dram, of radish, two ounces, of Coryander correct, half an a● ounce, Syler mounten, one dram, blanched Almonds, half a pound, small Reysens, half a pound, being washed with Wine. All these (being beaten or strained,) put into the said body of glass, to the Honey and other things: and if there be not enough of Aqua vite, put thereto more, and let them stand so seven days, well covered and stopped: then after distill the same in ashes with an easy fire, (all being well luted,) for the space of four hours, (lest the Honey boil,) and there will come out a clear water. Then increase the fire, and when you see the water yellow, then put too another receiver of glass, which you must lute also with the beak of the Still: and keep the first water by itself, & increase the fire until there come no more yellow water, and when you see it come black, then take away the receiver, and put an other thereto, and lute it likewise, and when you see a smoke come, than it is enough, and keep all these three severally, and let the Still stand until it be cold. In the first water put Folij Indi, five drams, Amber, half a dram, Mosche, half a scruple, which is twelve grains, and also fifteen leaves of Gold. If you will use it for the head, take one ounce of the water of betony, and of the first water one spoonful: mix them together & drink it all fasting. The virtue of this doth strengthen all the members. Take one ounce of Malmsey, or of other good Wine in a little glass, and put one spoonful of this first white water thereto, mix them together, and it will be white as milk: which, drink with a fasting stomach, and neither eat nor drink of two hours after: and it will preserve all thy members. For a cold liver, take a spoonful of the white water, with an ounce of the water of Sage. For the breast, and the cough of a cold Rheum, take it with the water of Isope, Lovathe, or Fennell. For the heart, with the water of bugloss, Borage or Balm. For the stomach, with the water of Woormwood. For the lights, with the water of maiden heair, or Polypode. For the Splen, with the water of Hartstongue. For the Vertigo (a gyddynes of the head) or the Apoplexy, with the water of Pyony, of Fennell, or of S. john's wort. For the Stone, with the water of Radysh, or winter Cherries. For the retaining 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 retaining or withholding of Menstrues, with the water of Mugwoort, or with water of Radysh. For the too much flux of the Menstrues, with the water of Planteyn, or of Nightshade. For the Matrix hurt by the mydwyle, or of any cold cause, whereby she doth conceive no more: let it be used with the water of Ualeryan or betony. Against the spots of the face, take of the water of Pympernell, four parts, of this white or first water, one part, mix them together, and anoint the face morning and evening: and drink it twice or thrice in the week with endive water. It cures the Canker, being anointed therewith, and the fistula: if a drop thereof many times put into it. It helps a cold gout: if it be anointed therewith. For the pain of the Matryx, let this water be taken with the water of Mugwoort. Also it is good against the quarten and quotidian Fevers. The citrine oil hath many virtues, as the oil of Balm: if any grief be anointed therewith. The black Oil is of great virtue in the gout: if it be anointed therewith, as the mother of Balm being white, called the golden Water. Gratarolus.  
HEre followeth an excellent medicine that will heal old, rotten & incurable Ulcers, very quickly. Take of Turpentyne, three times washed, first in fair spring or well water, & after in Rose or Planteyn water, three ounces, the yolk of an egg, Oil of Roses, an ounce & a half, Mercury sublimate made in powder, half a dram, & let them all be mixed well together, and make thereof an ointment, & wash the Ulcers or sores with white Wine: then spread some of that ointment or salve upon flax, & apply it to the sore, and dress it with new salve twice every day: but before every dressing, anoint with this following, three or four fingers breadth about the sore. Take of the oil of Roses, two ounces, of Vinegar, half an ounce, of the powder of bull Armoniac, a little, mix them together, and anoint it as is before said. And when all the rotten or putrefied flesh is eaten out: then anoint the Ulcer with butter, and you shall see a wonderful effect. Proved.  
FOr the burning or great intolerable heat of the urine. Take of the seeds of Purslane, of the seeds of Lettys, of the seeds of Endive, of the seeds of white Poppy, two ounces of every of them, of the seeds of henbane, half a dram, Sebasten two ounces, Saffern, one dram, Licqueres, five drams, Pineaple kernels, ten drams, fountain or spring water, six pound, myx them all together, & let them be sod until the consuming of the third part of the water: then let it be strained. Whereof take one ounce in the morning mixed with one ounce of Inlet, of Uyolets, and the fourth day the effect worthy of marvel, will appear. This is proved.  
A Notable & an excellent Balm. Take of Turpentine, one pound & a half, Galbanum, two ounces, Aloes cicotrin, Mastic, Cloves, Galangale, Cinnamon, Nutmugs, Cubebs, of every one of them an ounce, gum of ivy, half an ounce: when all is well beaten, mix them together, and distill them in glass, with a slow fire first, and receive the first water by itself severally, then increase the fire, & a water more reddish will come, then increase the fire more, and an oil will come of a red colour, receive that as long as any will come: you must change the receiver thrice. This oil hath all the virtues of true Balm, for it burneth in the water, and curddeth milk by & by: for if one drop of it warm, be put into a pint of milk, it will forthwith become curdded. The first liquor is called the water of Balm, the second, oil of Balm, the third, Balm artificial. The first is profitable against the running of the ears, if two drops morning and evening be put into them: dropped into the eyes, it amendeth the blearedness, and consumeth the tears: it doth marvelously restrain superfluous humours in any part of the body: it taketh away the tooth ache, if they be washed therewith, and killeth the worms, if there be any in them. The third liquor will suffer no venom, it is an utter enemy and destruction to Spiders and Serpents. Two or three drops thereof laid upon any venomous biting, doth make it whole straight. If thou draw a circle with this liquor, and shut a venomous Beast therein, it will die there, rather than go out of it. To be short, it doth all the same things that Treacle doth, but all things more effectually: being powered or put upon any Impostume, within nine days it healeth them, and likewise a Fistula be it never so evil, and also Noli me tangere. All diseases bred of phlegm, and of cold humours, it healeth: if a linen clothe dipped in it, be laid upon the place, where the grief is. It putteth away utterly the Palsy, and all trembling of members: it strengtheneth marvelously the Sinews, it is hotter than the first, or the second. If a man put a drop of it in his hand, it pierceth strait without grief. To conclude, it doth many other things, and all diseases risen of a cold cause it healeth: if they use it right. Lullius in his book of waters. But this is taken out of Euonymus.  
IF you take the gall of an Ox, man's urine, Uerivyce, and the juice of nettles, of each a like quantity, and mix them very diligently together, and after quench steel read hot therein, four or five times together: the same steel will after become as soft as passed. This is affirmed by the Scholars of Milan in their natural and Artificial conclusions. etc.  
A Most present remedy for them that are infect with the plague, for Carbuncles, pestilentical Puslles, holy Fire, and other of that kind. Take the ripe berries of ivy, being dried in the shadow, then stamp them and make them in powder, of which powder take half a dram in two or three ounces of the water of Planteyn: and remain still in the bed, until you have sweated very well, and after you have sweat, put on a clean shirt well aired at the fire: and if you may conveniently, let the sheets and the clothes of the bed be shifted. There hath been some healed with this order in one night. This is proved. Alexis of Pyemount saw one helped with taking this powder twice, that is: at morning and evening, having two Sores appearing, which with this powder, broke the next day after, and so recovered.  
DOctor Monardus in his book before mentioned among other marvelous matters, hath declared at large of two wonderful and strange Stones, in these words following. They do bring (saith he) from the new Spain, two Stones of great virtue, the one is called the Stone of the blood, and the other is a Stone for the disease of the Stone in the kidneys & reins. The blood Stone is a kind of a jasper of divers colours, somewhat dark, full of sprinkles like to blood, being of colour read: of the which Stones the indians do make certain Hearts, both great and small. The use thereof, both here and there, is for all flux of blood, of what parts so ever it be, of the Nose, or of the Menstrues, or of the piles, and of wounds, or of that which is cast out of the mouth. The Stone must be wet in cold water, and the sick man must take it in his right hand, and from time to time wet it in cold water. In this sort the indians do use them. And as touching the indians, they have it for certain, that touching the same Stone in some part where the blood runneth, that it doth restrain: and in this they have great trust, for that the effect hath been seen. It doth profit also, having it holden, hanged or tied in the same part, where the blood runneth, so that it touch on the flesh. Of this Stone we have seen great effects, in staunching of blood. And some that do suffer the Hemeroidall flux, have remedied themselves with making rings of this Stone, and wearing them continually on their fingers, and also in Menstrual flux of Women.  
The other Stone which is for the disease of the Stone in the kidneys or reins, the finest of them are like unto Plasina of Esmeraldes, which is likened to green, with a mylkishe colour, the greatest is the best, they bring them made in divers forms and fashions: for so the indians had them in old time, some like to fishes, other like to heads of Birds, other like to bills of Popageys, other like to round bead stones: but all pierced through, for that the indians did use to wear them hanging, for the effect of the grief of the stone or stomach: for in these two sicknesses it doth marvelous effects.  
The chief virtue that it hath, is in the pain of the stone in the kidneys and reins, and in expelling of sand and stone. Insomuch that a Gentleman which had one of them here, the best of them that I have seen, having put it to his arm, it doth make him to expel and cast out much sand, that many times he doth take it away: for that he thinketh that it doth hurt him for to put out so much, and in taking it away, he ceaseth to cast any from him. When he feeleth the pain of the Stone, and putting it too again, it doth take away incontinent, with expelling of much Sand and small Stones. I have seen it carried to persons, that have been grieved with great grief and pains of the said disease, and putting it to them, they do forthwith expel the Sand and the little Stones: and remain clear thereof. The Stone hath a property hidden, by the which means, he doth great effects, to preserve that they fall not into the pain of the said diseases.  
And after it is come, it taketh it away, or diminisheth it. It doth make the sand to be expelled with great abundance, and likewise stones. It taketh away the heat from the reins of the back: it profiteth in griefs of the stomach, put to it, and above all it preserveth from the said grief. My Lady the Duchess (a Duchess in Spain) for that she had in short time, three times, exceeding pains of the stone, she made a bracelet of them, & she used to wear it at her arm, and sithence she put them to her arm, she never had more pains of the stone. And so it hath happened to many other that had the like benefit, for the which they are much esteemed, & now they be not so soon had as at the beginning: for that these Stones only the Gentlemen & Rich men have them. And with reason: because they do such marvelous effects. Thus much hath the learned Doctor Monardus declared of the excellencies of the two afore named Stones, which are brought from the West Indyas, with divers other precious Oils, Woods, Gooms, & other things, as are most plainly & largely set forth in his said book with many credible proofs: lately Englished and published in print by the said john Frampton, therefore worthy of great commendations, called, joyful News out of the new found World. Which is of a small price, but yet very precious: for in my judgement, whosoever doth buy it, doth not pay therefore the hundredth part that it is worth.  
THe making of a stone which moisted with spittle, will burn. Take of quick lime, pure Salnyter, Tutye Alexandrine, not preparate, Calamita, of each one part, quick Brimstone, and Camphire, of either two parts, let them all be made in very fine powder and seared, then tie the same powder hard in a linen cloth, than put it into a Crucyble, and cover the same with an other Crucyble, & wrap it fast with wyars, and close it well with lute of wisdom, that nothing may respyer out, then let it be dried at the Sun: which done, cast the same Crucybles into the fire of a bryck kill, until the matter be well burned, which taken out, you shall found a perfect matter of the colour of a Tile: which if it be wet or moistened with a drop of water, or with spittle, putting Brimstone to it, than it will burn: which with blowing, or a blast is put out. jacobus Weckerus.  
TO make an egg ascend into the air. In the month of May, fill an egg shell clean emptied, with dew, and stop the hole well, wherein you did put the dew, then lay the egg in the hot Sun about noon: and it will be life up. But if you set a staff by it, it will ascend the more easily. jacob. Weckerus.  
TO make a thine Glue, a trim secret. Take the Glue made of fishes, and beat the same strongly on an Anvil, until it be thine: which after say to soak in water, until it become very soft and tender, which will be within five or two hours, and then work it like paste, to make small rolls thereof, which being like paste, stretch it, or draw it out very thin: and when you will work with it, than put some of it into an earthen pot with a little fair water over hot embers, & saym the same very clean, and let it so seeth a little while, then after work with the same, keeping it still over the hot embers, until you have done with it, for so it fasteneth and bindeth the stronger: and in such sort, that it fasteneth pieces of glass together.  
IF you would destroy caterpillars, do thus. Anoint all the bottom of the trree round about with Tar, then get a great sort of Ants or Pyssemyres, and put them in some bag, and draw the same up by a cord into the tree, and so let it hung there, so that it touch the body of the tree, and the Ants letted to go down from the tree by the means of the Tar, will (for want of food) eat and destroy all the caterpillars there, without hurting any of the fruit. This was told me for a very truth.  
MAke a hole in the end of a Goose egg, and put all the white and yolk out of it, then put into the shell, a Back that flies about in the evening, and then glue or close it fast on the top, and you shall see the Back fly away with the same Egg shell: to the great marvel of them that knows it not.  
IT is very evil (for them that falls sick) when the Moon is applying in conjunction to the Sun, and worse, when she is within six degrees of the Sun. This I know to be true by often proof and trial. And Abraham Auenezra affirms the same, writing De criticis diebus.  
rub any precious Stone upon Lead, and if then it change the colour: than it is a counterfeit Stone. If it change not: than it is a natural and good Stone.  
Stamp Celondyne, and lay it to any Tetter or Ryngwoorme, or any other such like, called Imipetigo or Serpigo, shifting it twice every day with new, for the space of a fortnight: and it will quite destroy and kill them. And also it will put away any black spots with the like using thereof, in what part of the body so ever they be.  
TAke pure Wax and fine Brimstone purified, of each a like much, melt them together, making thereof a Candle, and after take the powder of a coal finely beaten, and as much of Brimstone in powder. These sift through a Searse, or a linen cloth, and after heating the said Candle, smear it about with this powder, so long until it have (as it were) a thick crust round about the same, like unto the thickness of a back of a knife. Which after cover about the head of it, with a Paper, and then hang the same at the mouth of a gutter that droppeth fast, in a frosty evening, until it be covered with ice a finger thick: then light the same, and it will burn like as it were all Wax. This is taken out of the natural and artificial conclusions of the Scholars of Milan. Translated into english by Thomas Hill.  
THe conjunction of the Moon with Saturn (in the first beginning of sickness) doth signify evil and long sickness. But if Saturn be of a slow course, it augmenteth the evil. If of a swift course: than it dimynisheth of the evil. If he be Retrograde applying by opposition to the Sun, after he is cured, he will fall sick again: but if he be Retrograde, and separate by opposition from the Sun, the evil is diminished. Abraham Auenesra de criticis diebus.  
A Very good laxative Dredgepowder, whereof you may take a spoonful when you need in your pottage, or broth: it will make you to go to the stool. Take of pure Turbyt, one ounce, ginger, Cinnamon, Mastic, Anne's seeds, Hermodactyls, Diagredyon, of each half an ounce, of the leaves of Sene, two ounces, of Sugar, four ounces, beat them all into powder, and let them be mixed together. Leonardus Fuchsius.  
THat sign and degree wherein the Moon is in the hour and time of the birth of any: the same sign and degree did ascend at the very time of the conception of the same Child. And that sign & degree wherein the moon is, at the time of the conception: the same sign and degree, or the opposite to the same, doth ascend at the very time of the birth. Hermes et Ptolomeus: Therefore according to this rule of these ancient and famous Authors, (whereto Guido Bonatus, johannes Ganivetus, Sconerus and Taisnerus, notable & learned Astronomers, with divers other, do consent and agreed.) divers Women, have divers times, between the conception & birth of their children: For the place of the moon at the time of the conception, & her uncertain course after, doth plainly manifest that some Women goes with Child not above seven and thirty weeks: some others eight and thirty weeks and under: some nine and thirty weeks, and something less: some again goes forty weeks and a few days less, and sometimes certain days more, yea: and sometimes forty and one week, and one day, which is the longest time, as the learned in the same Science, can perfectly find out. Wherefore they are much deceived, that thinks every woman goes but just forty weeks with child: which fond and false opinion, hath made many an honest woman falsely suspected, wrongfully slandered, and without just cause from their husbands separated. Therefore it were good and very meet for every one, not to give too much credit to this fond reckoning of just forty weeks: which is more common than true. Which fore described excellent rule, (according to the mind of the worthy and learned Mizaldus,) is of no small weight, for the trial of the fidelity & honesty of women to their husbands, and to find out the very right time of the Nativity or birth, so that the very day and hour of the conception be certain.  
TAke the stones out of Reisens' of the Sun, then stamp the same Reysens, and apply a plaster thereof to any grief or ache: and it will cease it presently, and if you use it five or six times in such order, it will thoroughly help and cure the same. I have seen this well proved.  
IF you gather green Beans from the stalks, when they be ripe, fully grown and ready to eat, and then immediately cut of the said stalks within a handful of the root: then new and more branches will shortly after spring out of the same. Which will bring forth new Beans, and more plentifully than before: and as good as the first. Whereby you may have more than double increase, and two several gatherings of Beans in one year. But in anywyse, take heed that the first gathering and cutting away of the stalks be, when the said stalks be green. I have seen it proved, therefore I write and publish it for an undoubted truth. It is credibly told me, that if you use Peason in the same order: the like effect will follow. Which I believe to be true, as well in the one as in the other.  
Say a dish over hot sodden milk, and there will a water be on the inside of the dish, which water keep in some glass: whereof if a little be put into sore pained or dim eyes, it will help them marvelously. This was affirmed to me for truth.  
HEre followeth the description of a notable Oil of Balm. Take of Turpentyne, one pound, and put it into a body of Glass, and warm it at a soft and easy fire, until it wax lyquyd, and put therein by little and little, with myxting or stirring it, the powder of frankincense, five drams, of Lygnum Aloes, Mastycke, Cloves, Galynga, cinnamon, Mace, Quibybs, of each one dram, all well powdered together, goom of a Fig tree, six drams, likewise made in powder and all mixed together, and mix them all with the said Turpentyne made lyquyd as is before said, and when they be well incorporated together, set on the head of the Lymbeck, and lute all the joints of the same well, and set it in ashes, and put under it an easy fire. And when it begins to distill, let it drop away a little, for the first drops are little worth: then put the receiver to the nose of the Limbeck, and close and lute them well together that no air go forth: for then the virtue of it would go away. Then know that at the first will come forth a white and clear water, which keep by itself. Then will come forth the second water, which is better, of a heavenly and airy colour: which keep by itself. Then receive the third, which is the best, which will be yellow and thick as Honey: keep this also by itself. The first of these is called the water of Balm: the second, the Oil of Balm: the third, is called Balm. His proof to all examynations is, that you take one drop of the same, and let it be put in a vessel full of water, as you do of natural Balm, for the said drop will go to the bottom of the water: and it will stand their whole, as though it were pure Balm. This is marvelous, and is of great virtues, which is called of some, mother of Balm.  
The first virtue thereof is, that it burns: the second is, that if thou wash thy face and nose therewith, and that thrice in a day, it cures and helps the rheum. It cleareth the sight, and it comforteth the Sinews: and if thou wash therewith the hinder part of thy head, than it comforts the memory, and all the virtues of the mind.  
This doth purify both Fish and Flesh, and if they be putrefied or corrupt, whatsoever thereof is corrupt or putrefied: it takes and consumes it away. And it keeps that that is good and sound: so that you may eat them as though they were new and fresh. It brings again an appetite, it comforteth the stomach, and if you take thereof morning and evening: it consumes the phlegm in the stomach. It helps or cures a stinking breath, as well coming of the stomach as of the brain: if you take four or five drops thereof once a day in a little Wine. Not cold venomous thing may come near it, as Frogs, Toads, Serpents and Scorpions: if a cloth dypt in the same, and compass a Toad or Serpent, compassed therewith, they will die, although they touch it not, and so it doth in all kind of cold venoms: as the biting of a Toad, or of a Serpent. For it heals it, if you wash oftentimes therewith the grieved place. And if you seeth an egg in it, it will sooner be sod therein, then in any boiling water. It heals and dries up any kind of scab or Tetter quickly: if you wash it therewith twice in a day: and if you put three or four drops of this into the ear, and suffers it there as long as you may: it helps and cures all noise and soundings of the ears. If you mix with this equal portion of the juice of Germander, & puts thereof into the ear three or four drops, four times in the day, than it helps & cures all deafness: of what cause soever it comes. Watering eyes and bleared eyes it doth cure, clarify, restrain and comforts: if you wash them therewith twice or thrice. All Impostumes, Ulcers, & all other superfluityes it doth restrain, cure, and rectify. And it is a thing more repercussive & consumptive against cold humours, them the Sapphire or Planteyn. All pains of the teeth, or running humours, it doth help, restrain, fortify: and it makes the teeth white, if therewith you do wash the roots of the teeth. All wounds of the head, though they be deep, are cured with this same Oil: if therewith you wash it twice or thrice a day. Yea, though the brain pan be broken, so that Pia matter be not hurt. It heals and cures all Fystulaes', Cancers, Noli me tangere, the King's Evil, and every other eating Sore: if you wash the same therewith twice or thrice a day. It heals and cures all kind of gouts, if you wash or anoint them therewith, so that they come of a cold cause: and laying also a linen clothe dypt therein upon the grieved place. It helps also all strokes with staves or other bruisings, either by falls or otherwise, if you anoint the bruised or grieved place therewith, & heals them perfectly and well. It helps the Emrodes and the fundament that goes forth, and makes it tarry in his place: if you anoint the same therewith. It helps the Palsy, and all weakness of the members, it doth strengthen: if you anoint the same therewith. Know that it is most hot, and is of such penetration and heat, that if you put one drop thereof in your hand, by and by it penetrates the hand without any hurt. And you shall not feel any swelling of the feet or of the legs, or any pain of the joints: if you wash or anoint the same therewith, and it will help it, if you dip a linen clothe therein and plaster it thereto. And briefly, if you will use it, it profits, helps and cures all cold griefs, and all diseases coming of a cold cause, of phlegm, or of putrefied or corrupt blood. It hath yet many other virtues here left out, and it is called the mother of Balm, because it is better than Balm in many of his effects. And if you will prove that it be a true Balm: take a chicken (the feathers plucked off, and the guts taken away,) and see that it be well washed & made as clean as can be, and dry the same at a soft fire, so long as you may well hold it in your hand, then anoint the same Chycken well both within & without, with the said Balm, twice or thrice: then afterwards lay the said Chycken against the Sun, for the space of two hours, suffering it a little to dry at the Sun, and afterwards lay up the said chicken where you will: for it will never putrefy nor receive any corruption, so long as the world shall endure. And know further that this Oil hath fifteen other virtues, which are written: but not here. This notable Oil of Balm, I copied out of a very old written book, which came out of the Abbey of Elsam in Lyncolnshyre. And now by me converted out of Latin into English, to the profit of many, I hope.  
A Fly drowned in water, Wine, Ale, or Beer, and so thoroughly dead, being laid in warm Ashes: (but they must not be burning or very hot,) the same Fly will recover and live again. This is very true.  
IF you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe, and immediately cut away the new springs, tops, and the uppermost branches of that year: you shall have new & fresh Roses grow again out of the same, the same year, about Mighelmas. I know this to be true, and for truth I have published it abroad.  
THe Indians do use the Tabaco (a notable herb) for to suffer the dreyth, & also for to suffer hunger, and to pass days without, having need either to eat or drink, by any desert or dyspeopled country, where they shall found neither water nor meat. They do use of these little balls, which they do make of this Tabaco, they take the leaves of it, and do chew it, and as they go chewing of them, they mingle with them certain powder made of the shells of Cockles burned, and they mingle it in their mouth all together, until they make it like to dough, of the which they make certain little balls, little greater than Peason: and they put them to dry in the shadow, and after they keep them & use them, for the avoiding of hunger & thirst, in their travel without any meat and drink: for the space of three or four days. This Doctor Monardus hath written, with many other wonders and notable virtues thereof, in his book before mentioned: entitled, joyful News out of the new found World. This Tabaco is a marvelous & wonderful herb, growing in the west Indyas, called the new Spain: and through the bringing of the seeds thereof from thence, it grows now both in Spain and France.  
Worms and other venomous Beasts are driven away from any place, with the smoke or fume of other Beasts of the same kind, as Rasis writeth.  
QUick silver killed, burned Lead, the scales of Iron, or black Hellebor, mixed with some pleasant meat that Mice loves: if any Mice eat thereof, it will kill them. Mizaldus.  
THere is a certain Goom is brought from the firm ●●nde of the Peru, which helps the gout with purging the cause thereof, if you put of it as much as a Nut in distilled water, which water aught to be the quantity of two ounces, and give the same to the patiented, (the same party forbearing meat until the midst of the day.) This Monardus affyrmes to be proved, manifesting the same at large in his said book called, the joyful News out of the new found World. The name of the Goom he names not.  
THe roots of Roses or their slips with their knots, removed and set amongst broom, will bring forth yellow Roses. johan. Bap. Por.  
THat Cheese that is made with cheslep or rennet, wherein a little of the brain of a weasel is put or mixed: will not putrefy, neither be eaten of Myce. Pictorius.  
THere is a certain Tree growing in Peru, a boowe whereof, if one doth hold fast in his left hand, a good while, that would know whether one that is sick shall live or die (of that disease, or at that time,) if the sick shall live and escape: the party that holds the same, shall show much gladness. If the sick shall die, than the party that holds the same shall be very sad. Monardus writeth of this Tree in his said book, and shows that the same was proved true by a Gentlewoman that was marvelous sad, whiles she did hold the same, whose husband died soon after accordingly.  
A Rare and strange kind of fruit, as great as a Nut, with marvelous round and hard b●●cke stones in them, is brought out of the new Spain, by the report of the said worthy Doctor Monardus, whereof two or three, with hot water, doth more effect for to wash and to make clean clothes, than one pound of Soap doth: whereof as well as of many other strange and most excellent things you may read, described at large in his said book, called the joyful News out of the new found World. A Book no doubt worthy of great estimation, and commendation.  
IF a handful of figs be stamped, till the kernels be broken, then tempered with a little fresh grease, and so a plaster thereof laid to a Woman's breast that is sore, as hot as she may suffer the same: it will take away the swelling and pain thereof, and if it be ready to break, it will break it, or else not. This is an excellent and a sure tried thing.  
TAke two ounces of Sulphur vyve, called quick Brimstone, beat it in powder, and mix the same well with as much of black Soap, that is of the most stinking smell, and tie the same in a linen cloth, and let it hung in a pint of strong Wine vinegar, for the space of nine days, and then use to wash any kind of skuruynes, or morphew therewith, though never so old or rooted, being either on the face, or on any other part of the body, with a linen cloth, dypt or wet therein, and so let the same vinegar dry in of itself, and do thus as long as the said vinegar lasts: and therewith the deformity or morphew will be perfectly healed. And whosoever uses to drink the water of Strawberries distilled: it will certainly kill the root of any morphew that is within the body. All this is well proved  
AN excellent preservative against the Plague, which was proved and used in the great Plague in England, in the year of our Lord. 1548. For every one that used it then, escaped. Take Aloes hepatic, pure cinnamon, Myrrh, of each three drams, Cloves, Mace, wood of Aloes, called Lignum Aloes, Mastic, Bole armoniac, of each half an ounce, mix them all together, and make thereof a very fine powder, whereof take early in the morning with white Wine mixed with a little water: and by the grace of God, you shall be preserved safe from the Plague. Weckerus.  
IF you burn the shells of Snails with Styracks, and then sprinkle thereof upon an Aunt's hill: thereby they will be driven forth of the ground, or place where they are.  
TAke of English Saffern beaten in fine powder, and as much of pure & good black Soap: which, when they be well mingled together, spread it upon the fleshy side of a piece of Leather, than lay it upon the Navel of them, whose urine or water is stopped: and it will procure the water to come forth, and thereby they shall make water within one hour. This was told me for a true and tried secret, whereof I dare make no warrantyze: but favour it as you find it.  
MAke lute or clay with the dregs or mother of Oil, and mix therewith a little chaff, then let it lie so two or three days, then daub with the said thick lute or clay, your Garner or room, where you will say your Corn, then sprynckle the dregs or mother of Oil, all over where you have daubed: and when it is dry, lay Wheat therein, and there shall neither Wevell nor Mice, hurt, touch, or come near that Wheat. This I had out of an old Book. And jacobus Weckerus also affirms the same.  
WHen you first see the Cuckoo, mark well where your right foot doth stand: for you shall find there an heair. Which if it be black, it signifies that you shall have very evil luck all that year after. If it be white, then very good luck: But if it be grey, then indifferent. It is sure that such a heair hath been found accordingly, but what event did follow thereof I am yet uncertain. But this was affirmed to me for a very truth. It was also credibly reported unto me, that the like heair will be found under the right foot, at the first seeing of the Swallow, after they are comed at the spring time: so that you look after the said Swallow, as long as you can see her.  
A Quantity of Hemp seed stamped, and strained through a cloth when it is well sodden with running water, and a good draft thereof drunk last, going to bed, and so used: will make one laxative and lose bellied. This is a proved thing therefore.  
THe great Alexander being desirous, that the long life of Hearts might be known to his posterity: caused golden Chains to be made fast unto many Hearts (about their necks I think:) the time when the same was done, being expressed or marked in the same, and they which were taken of the same Hearts, an hundredth years after: did not yet seem to be of the age of old Hearts. Mizaldus' writeth this: who affirms that Pliny is the Author thereof.  
Quick lime mixed with old Cheese, and well beaten together, will fasten and glue strongly together, broken stone vessels, and also broken glasses. This was very credibly told me for a very great secret, by one that proved it many times, as he said.  
Whosoever hath an extreme heat, or sore burning Fever, let them use to drink four or five times in one day, a good draft of the distilled water of wild Poppy, that is, Papaver erraticum, which grows among Corn, with a read flower, much like the leaf of a Rose, it is called of some, read corn Rose. This have I tried to be true.  
THey in whose Nativity Saturn is Lord of the seventh house, are not like to marry before they be thirty years of age: or else until Saturn (from that time,) hath compassed the whole Zodiac, (which differs not much.) This is proved true by long experience, & I have seen many, whose seventh house is Capricorn or Aquary (the houses of Saturn,) and yet I never knew any of them, but either died unmarried, or else married after they were thirty years of age. And as I remember Cardanus agrees herein.  
IF the bottom of a seething pot with meat newly taken from the fire, may be touched or felt without harm or danger of burning: then certainly the same meat is boiled enough. But if it be hot and not sufferable: than it is not sufficiently sod. This I know to be true: for I have seen the trial thereof.  
LAy a green ivy leaf in a dish, or other vessel of fair water, either for yourself or for any other, on newyear's even at night, and cover the water in the said vessel, and set it in a sure or safe place, until Twelve even next after (which will be the fift day of january,) and then take the said ivy leaf out of the said water, and mark well if the said leaf be fair and green as it was before: for than you or the party for whom you laid it into the water, will be whole and sound and safe from any sickness all the next year following. But if you find any black spots thereon, than you or the party for whom you laid it into the water, will be sick that same year following. And if the spots be on the upper part of the leaf towards the stalk, than the sickness or pain will be in the head, or in the neck, or there about. And if it be spotted nigh the mids of the leaf, than the sickness will be about the stomach or heart. And likewise judge that the disease or grief will be in that part of the body, according as you see the black spots under the same in the leaf. accounting the spots in the neither or sharp end of the leaf, to signify of the pains or diseases in the feet. And if the leaf be spotted all over, than it signifies, that you or the party shall die that year following. You may prove this for many, or few, at one time, by putting in the water, for every one a leaf of green ivy, (so that every leaf be noted or marked to whom it doth belong.) This was credibly told me to be very certain, who affirmed to me faithfully that it was divers times proved for a very truth. But because I never tried it: therefore I refer every one that shall read it to the trial thereof.  
BRusonious wryghtes, and Georgius Fabricus affirms the same, that the bones of Hens, mixed with melted Gold: do consume the same Gold in to themself.  
THe water distilled of Honey, makes fair and comely cullored Heir, if it be often moistened, or sponged therewith. This is proved.  
THe roots of Hollyockes, stamped and mixed with the Grease of an old Hog, and plastred to the Gout, helpeth it in three days. Petrus Hispanus.  
Verivyce sod, until it be very hot, and then put into a t●●nen Bottle with a narrow mouth, and then holden too, or in the ear, that the fume thereof may enter into the head: it will help the head ache marvelously, and the sounding of the ears. And if there be any quick things in the head, it will bring them forthwith great speed. A Gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head, esteeming it as a precious secret: but I never tried it, therefore as it proves so praise it.  
IF one be wounded that hath the dropsy, it is hard to heal him. Hypocrates. Therefore this is worth the marking.  
YOu shall know how many days old the Moon is, if you do as followeth, (especially she being in the first quarter) hold before your eyes a piece of fine Lawn, and look through it strait upon the Moon, and so many days old as the Moon is, so many Moons shall you see, or at the lest, they will seem so many in your sight. assoon as you try it, you will say it is true: For I have seen the proof thereof.  
I Hard it told for a very truth by divers persons, that in a plague time, in the City of Cullen, there was a certain woman died, and was buried with a Ring of gold on her finger, for the greediness whereof, a covetous fellow within a while after she was buried: digged her Grave, and opened the coffin wherein she did lie, thinking thereby to take away the Ring from her finger, but immediately the said woman did suddenly stir and move, and began to sit up: which when the said fellow saw, with great fear he did run away, and then the woman by some means, did tear or unloose the sheet, wherein she was wrapped, and then she went strait home to her Husband, and called upon him, to let her into the house: whom, when he hard, he thought it had been a Spirit.  
But at last, through her importunate calling, he received her into the house, and thus wonderfully she recovered and lived: which Woman after that, had three or four children, of whom it is said, there is a Monument at this present, in the said City of Cullen. Therefore too has●y or quick burial is not to be used, as not only this rare example may sufficiently teach us: But also for such causes as I have alleged in another place of this book.  
IF you grafted the slips of a Wylding or sour Apple, upon the stock of a Hawthorne: you shall have Meddlers grow thereof. This I have seen proved: therefore I affirm it for truth.  
A little Bird called the King's fisher, being hanged up in the air by the neck: his nebbe or bill will be always direct or straight against the wind. This was told me for a very truth, by one that knew it by proof: as he said.  
Whosoever shall wear about their middle such a girdle as followeth, tying it fast that it fall not away, they shall not need to fear drowning: though the boat they are in should myscarie, whereby they may pass over any water safely & without any danger, though it be never so deep. For so long as it is about them, they can not sink. Take two pieces of good neats leather well tanned and dressed, such as foot balls be made of, (either piece being of the breadth of five or six fingers:) And of such a length as will make a sufficient girdle for you, let a shoemaker sew them very strongly, thick stytched, and surely together, and likewise at both the ends: and in the mids thereof fasten a Pipe like to a bagpipe, wherewith blow the same girdle as full of wind as you can possible: then under the neither end of the Pipe, tie the leather very fast and sure, that ioygnes the pipe & the girdle together, with a strong packthread, or with some other sure & strong thing, lest the wind should come out of the girdle, (whereof you must take great heed.) Also blow three Ox bladders full of wind, and tie them hard that the wind go not forth of the same, and sew each of them strongly and surely within good strong neats leather, round like unto a foot ball, and make three strong lowpes upon the said girdle, one against the mids of the back, and against either of the sides one, and then tie fast and surely one of the said bladders sewed in the leather, to every of the said lowpes, and then tie the same girdle about your middle very fast and sure. And then you can not sink into the water. And so you may pass safely over: if the water be not too broad and too rough. Nicholaus Michavel hath written of such a like girdle in his excellent Book of the Art of Wars: for the saveing of Soldiers and fishers over waters. In which Book there are other notable engines, and worthy matter beside, concerning wars.  
A Ladle made of the wood of a Fig tree, hath a marvelous property, for if Flesh in the seething thereof, be often stirred therewith, or if it be in the Pot while it is seething: it makes the Flesh to be sooner sodden. Mizaldus.  
A Partrych will cry aloud, and will tear or break the Cage or coop where she is fed, if there be any deadly medicine or poison prepared within the same house, which she doth feel presently, and also hath knowledge thereof, through a wonderful special and rare gift of nature. Actius ex pisone.  
GEllius writeth that the Hedgehog makes the mouth of her hole, Cabin, or Cave always contrary to the wind: for through a marvelous natural gift, she hath foreknowledge in what quarter the wind willbe, and thereupon she changeth the mouth or entering in of her hole or cave, whereby Mariners have learned aforehand, the place of the wind.  
The end of the tenth and last Book.  
FINIS.   



¶ A special Table for the finding out of any matter in this Book, whereof the Table of the first Book doth follow.  
A Strange History of two lovers that were poisoned by eating of Sage. pag. 1 ●ph. 1.  
A 〈◊〉 Poct did wear leaden soles. pag. 2. ●ph. 2.  
A strange thing of Mullen. pag 2.3.  
To increase milk in Nurses. pag. 2.4.  
Aqua vite helps sinews and muscles. pag. 2.5.  
To make rough or chapped lips smooth. pag. 2.6.  
To know who shallbe crook backed or halt. pag. 3.7.  
Earth worms help deafness. pag. 3.8.  
A notable cure of one that had the grief of the spleen seven years. pag. 3.9.  
A rare thing to make a horse ●all, as dead, and after to make him lively. pag. 3.10.  
To get a precious stone out of a snake. pag. 4.11.  
A way to keep wine safe from thunder. pag. 4.12.  
To know who shall have the palsy. pag. 4.13.  
To take away a Wen. pag. 4.14.  
To make wood of the colour of Hebenus. pag. 4.15.  
An excellent virtue of Mullen in helping of bruises and sores. pag. 5.16.  
Ualerian will draw out any wood or iron out of the flesh. pag. 5.17.  
To make a barren vine bear grapes. pag. 6.18.  
To preserve the teeth from rotting. pag. 6.19.  
The teeth of a Boar newly killed will burn brys●ies or hairs. pag. 6.20.  
A present cas● for the gout. pag. 6.21.  
The City of Tornace w●s marvelously delivered from the plague, by the shooting o●f of guns. pag. 6.22.  
To make common Azure. pag. 7.23.  
A Cock fears not a Serpent, yet he is afraid of a glead. pag. 7.24.  
To ma●e amber clearer & better. pag. 7.25.  
A ●are way to stay the flux of spa●●e. pag. 8.26.  
Cantarides applied made one to pyssa blood pag. 8.27.  
A strange virtue of y bu● leaf. pag. 8.28.  
A salve made of ale helps sores and aches. pag. 8.29.  
Docks makes tough flesh to be tender. pag. 8.30.  
A way to know whether one be sick in body or in mind, or in both. pag. 9.31.  
To know who is infect with the pluresye. pag. 9.32.  
They that have the quarteyn, shall not have the falling sickness. pag. 9 33.  
To colour bones with a green colour. pag. 9.34.  
Oil keeps wine from corrupting. pa. 10.35.  
The coals of a birch tree healeth wounds. pag. 10.36.  
A Robin read breast will cover the face of a dead body with moss. pag. 10.37.  
A strange example of the heath basil. pag. 10.38.  
Great heed aught to be taken of children's navels strings when they be cut. pag. 10.39  
To help them that can not hold their water. pag. 10.40.  
An incredible t●le of a loving dog. pag. 11.41.  
The member of generation doth follow the proportion of the navel string cut. pag. 11.42.  
A strange way for the helping of the cods. pag. 11.43.  
A woman carried a dead child in her womb thirteen years. pag. 12.44.  
To make a woman be speedily delivered. pag. 12▪ 45.  
A strange effect of the love of Pigeons with the Kestrel. pag. 12.46.  
A rare secret of the wort leaf. pag. 12.47.  
A perfect and precious medicine for the plague. pag. 12.48.  
A strange way to know, whether the next child of a woman will be a boy or a wench. pag. 13.49.  
A sure medicine to destroy a felon. pa. 13.50.  
A good proo●● that children are not always like their Parents. pag. 13.51.  
A Toad stone ceases the pains coming by the biting of any venomous beast. pa. 14.52.  
A try●● way to kill Lice. pag. 14.53.  
To make woman's dugs round and hard. pag. 14.54.  
To know whether a woman ●e barren or not. pag. 14.55.  
A Ring which makes the bearer thereof safe from poison and plagu●. pag. 14.56.  
The excellent virtues of fasting spe●●le. pag. 15.57.  
To keep Cheese from putrefying. pa. 15.58  
To ●nde a precious coal on Midsummer even. pag. 15.59.  
A good thing to feed Beasts, and to make the hands white. pag. 15.60.  
All things will swine upon quicksilver, except gold. pag. 16.61.  
An excellent way to stay the growing of hea●●. pag. 16.62.  
A present remedy for hoarseness & the cough. pag. 16.63.  
To 〈◊〉 who are like to have the gout. pag. 17.64.  
To take away the evil smell of the feet. pag. 17.65.  
A strange way to cease the bleeding of the nose. pag. 17.66.  
Milk and exercise from the cradle, makes tall and 〈◊〉 persons. pag. 17.67.  
A present remedy for the Squinancy, pa. 17.68  
Two contrary natures in the nettle. pa. 17.69  
To know whether a woman is like to have children or not. pag. 18.70.  
To make teeth as white as ivory. pa. 18.71  
To take spots out of the face. pag. 18.71.  
A strange way to help the quarteyn a●ue. pag. 18.73.  
A proved way to help the Collyc●e and pains of the back. pag. 18.74.  
To help the swellings of the throat. pag. 18.75.  
To make a woman loath the company of man, & a man to desire a woman. pa. 18.76  
The strange nature of dogs. pag. 19.77.  
To know good & pure 〈◊〉. pag. 19.78.  
To join broken glasses and broken cups. pag. 19.79.  
The great virtue of Planteyn, being the herb of Mars. pag. 19.80.  
To 'cause a Bull unable to bull a Cow. pag. 20.81.  
A strange way to lose a man that is enchanted or bewitched, thereby unable to the act of generation. pag. 20.82.  
A strange way to put away the cramp. pag. 20.83.  
A pretty devise to put out and light a candle, to make them marvel that sees it. pa. 20.84  
To make a writing, being cast into the fire, to leap out of the same. pag. 20.85.  
To get any quick thing out of the head. pag. 21.86.  
A rare help for the cramp. pag. 21.87.  
A strange secret to pluck out a thorn out of the flesh. pag. 21.88.  
Sygnifycations when the pains be in the eyes. pag. 21.89.  
One through use did forbear drink all his life after. pag. 21.90  
The three corned bon● of a Ca●p ceaseth the bleeding of the nose. pag. 22.91.  
A strange medicine for curing the web, and the blindness of the eye. pag. 22.92.  
Salt will make women apt to have children. pag. 22.93.  
divers Beasts and Birds, do diversly help their diseases according to their nature. pag. 22.94.  
Annyball made a passage through the hard rocks of the Alpes, with vinegar. pa. 23.95  
A notable remedy for all wounds. pa. 23.96  
To make white ●yllies re●. pag. 23.97.  
A hindrance for women to bring forth wenches. pag. 23.98.  
A notable way to get quicksilver out of such as are anointed with ointments my●t with the same. pag. 24.99.  
To draw out thorns, and to help the dropsy, a rare and strange secret. pag. 24.100.    


The Table of the second book.  
FOr knowledge of griefs and diseases in in the eyes. pag. 25.1.  
A marvelous virtue given to the s●u●th male Child. pag. 25.2.  
A learned Physician knew ●one was sick for love, by the feeling of his pulse. pa. 25.3  
A strange way to know whether one that is sick, be in danger of death, or not. pag. 25.4.  
To gather Har●s together into one place. pag. 26.5.  
Why children have cloven overlyps, called Hartlyps, a wondered thing. pag. 26.6.  
What time the disease taken will be dangerous, or not. pag. 26.7.  
To draw an egg through a ring. pa. 26.8.  
To resolve Flynt stones into powder. pag. 27.9.  
To 'cause worms come out of the ground. pag. 27.10.  
To take spots and rustynes from Iron. pag. 27.11.  
An excellent help for the gout. pa. 27.12.  
That Ink shall never be frozen. pa. 27.13.  
The Stars are strong in the birth, according to the aptness of them that be borne. pag. 27.14.  
A strange nature of the Sycamore tree. pag. 28.15.  
A rare thing to procure sleep. pag. 28.16.  
To foreknow who shall have pains in the stomach. pag. 28.17.  
A very strange way to help them that be broken bellied. pag. 28.18.  
To make Hens lay Eggs apace. pa. 29.19.  
To cleanse the face from all spots and other deformities. pag. 29.20.  
To drive away Flies, that never, there be seen any there after. pag. 29.21.  
To make troubled Wine, fair and clear. pag. 30.22.  
What time is danger to wound or cut any body. pag. 30.23.  
A strange cause of the notable marks of children before they be borne. pag. 30.24.  
To keep things from putrefying. pa. 31.25.  
Beasts of one kind, will be hurt, & not hurt, with eating of one thing. pag. 31.26.  
A child marvelously preserved by a wolf. pag. 31.27.  
A strange way to preserve chestnuts. pag. 32.28.  
The great virtue of Knotgrass. pa. 32.29.  
A strange thing to make a Dog turn round about, and to fall down as dead. pag. 32.30.  
A way whereby hunger was the less grievous to the Scythians. pag. 32.31.  
A notable Policy whereby the Romans got a worthy victory. pag. 33.33.  
A loving Dog to his master. pag. 33.34.  
A signification of blindness. pag. 34.35.  
A present case for the gout. pag. 34.36.  
Knotgrass dangerous for sheep. pa. 34.37  
An incredible matter done in one's sleep●. pag. 34.38.  
The strange nature of chaff. pag. 36.39.  
To make wine pleasant in colour and taste. pag. 36.40.  
Who shall have pains in their Liver. p. 36.41  
A proved medicine to cure the black jaundice. pag. 36.42.  
To make a sword, dagger, or knife to cut iron, as though it were steel. pag. 36.43.  
An excellent way to purify wine. pa. 37.44.  
To keep a dog from being mad. pa. 37.45.  
To make sweet & pleasant Arthychokes. pag. 37.46.  
A sure medicine to help the stitch. pa. 37.47  
What ground will breed the fyne●● wheat. pag. 37.48.  
A strange medicine wherewith Galen cured the ●allyng sickness. pag. 37.49.  
To keep Dogs from madness, and from much barking. pag. 38.50.  
To make a Leek have a monstrous head. pag. 38.51.  
The marvelous properties of the stone A●tites. pag. 38.52.  
Certain people without mouths, lives by smelling of Flowers, apples & roots. pag. 38.53.  
A special remedy for falling or bruises. pag. 39.54.  
Children borne at some time will be blind. pag. 39.55.  
A strange cu●ing of the falling sickness. pag. 39.56.  
To turn Wine into vinegar presently. pag. 39.57.  
A rare helping of the King's evil. pa. 39.58  
A dangerous time to fall sick in. pa. 40.59  
Birds helps their diseases diversly. pag. 40.60.  
Reysens' will avoid and kill the worms. pag. 40. ●1.  
An excellent help for the colic. pa. 40.62.  
To help the pains of the bladder. p. 41.63  
Children borne at such a time will have the deseas of the s●len. pag. 41.64.  
To make fruit● grow with what form you ly●t. pag. 41.65.  
The great liberality of Alphons for making of the astronomical Tables. pag. 41.66.  
To know whether the plague be curable or not. pag. 42.67.  
A marvelous profitable use of sparrows. pag. ●2. 68.  
To make white hands. pag. 43.69.  
A strange matter of the quills, or pens of an Eagle. pag. 43.70.  
To help the readnes of the face. pa. 43.71.  
To make vn●uly beasts tame. pag. 43.72.  
To make stones soft. pag. 43.73.  
To make frozen Apples come to there first nature. pag. 44.74.  
An excellent thing to be known by the mulberry tree. pag. 44.75.  
To separate gold from silver. pag. 44.76.  
A notable virtue of the jasper stone. pag. 44.77.  
To keep Pigeons from being hurt of any Cat's Wesels or of any other v●rmen pag. 44.78.  
Who are like to have the p●ysyck. p. 44.79  
A notable medicine to help itchinges or scabs. pag. 45.80.  
A proved medicine for the stone. p. 45.81.  
A foreknowledge of the plague. pa. 45.82.  
Two strange brethren borne in 〈◊〉. pag. 45.83.  
An excellent medicine for all sores. p. 45.84  
Women transformed into young beasts. pag. 45.85.  
To cease quickly the graefe of the gout. pag. 46.86.  
A wonderful gift given to Rats and dormice. pag, 46. 8●.  
To cease the bleeding of the nose. pag. 46.83.  
To preserve children from the falling sickness. pag. 46. 8●.  
One became mad by playing with a whelp. pag. 46. ●0.  
To help the 〈◊〉 or the gout. pag. 47.91.  
A strange matter of a Wolves skin. pag. 47.92.  
To make mice run into the fire. pag. 47.93  
To keep clotheses from moths. pag. 48.94  
To know which part of ones life is most fortunate. pag. 48.95.  
To stay hairs from growing. pag. 48.96  
A strange secret to stop the bleeding of the nose. pag. 48.97.  
To know whether a woman be with child or not. pag. 49.98.  
They shallbe faint and given to swooning being borne at such a time. pag. 49.99.  
To make them slender that are gross. pag. 49.100.    


The Table of the third book.  
TO help a Horse of the Cough. pag. 50.1.  
The loyal love of the Turtle Dowue. pag. 50.2.  
To know in what quarter it is best for one to devil in. pag. 50.3.  
A wonderful thing of a woman tormented. pag. 51.4.  
Wytchery or Sorcery put away. pa. 51.5.  
A strange thing of Moules or woontes. pag. 51.6.  
〈◊〉 pre●●yge of wars scarceness or plague. pag. 52.7.  
The sign of death of a sick body. pa. 52.8.  
To help the Cough or shortness of breath. pag. 52.9.  
A sure remedy for a felon. pag. 52.10  
To help chapped hands. pag. 53.11.  
That Horses shall not be hurt with shoeing. pag. 53.12.  
A strange thing of a Far tree. pa. 53.13.  
A good time to fall sick in. pag. 53.14.  
To heal the sores or postules of the head. pag. 53.15.  
One foretold the death of one that was s●ck by Astrologye. pag. 53.16.  
To purge the head and gooms, and to fasten the teeth. pag. 54.17.  
A strange medicine to help the bloody flux. pag. 54.18.  
To confirm the memory. pag. 55.19.  
To make no wolves enter into any town pag. 55.20.  
Things thrown to a certain well, was converted into a stone. pag. 55.21  
To know whether one shall find the party at home or not. pag. 55.22.  
An excellent property of the sapher. pag. 56 23.  
To bewray whether a woman be painted or not. pag. 56.24.  
Tokens of the murryan or death of cattles. pag. 56.25.  
Tyberuis the Emperor did see as Cats do in the night. pag. 57.26.  
A preservative from the plague. pag. 57.27.  
To make a marvelous hedge. pag. 57.28.  
A wonderful of the elephants. pag. 57.29.  
To quicken forgetful persons. pag. 58.30.  
A notable water for the eyes. pag. 58.31.  
The threescore and third year of ones age a part dangerous time. pag. 58.32.  
An excellent remedy for the tooth ache. pag. 59.33.  
They that are borne at a certain time, shall have pains in their stones. pag. 59.34  
A true medicine for la●enes. pag. 59.35  
They shall have a special mark in there face, that are borne at a certain time. pag. 59.36.  
Things that fears Lions. pag. 59.37  
To keep Pigeons safe from Cats. pag. 60.38.  
To make any place safe from wolves and flies. pag. 60.39  
Good and evil signs in a mad man. pag. 60.40.  
To procure a good stomach. pag. 60.41.  
A strange way to let Fleas from breeding. pag. 60.42.  
To make the counterfeit Mandrag. pag. 61.43.  
To keep hands from feeling any cold. pag. 61.44.  
To resist venom or poison. pag. 61.45.  
testimonies of death by the planets. pag. 62.46.  
To make a woman speedily to be delivered. pag. 62.47.  
A rare secret for consuming the web in the eye. pag. 62.48.  
A special medicine for swooning. pag. 62.49.  
To●ens of deaf●es by Astrologye. pag. 63.50.  
A precious thing for swelling of the throat. pag. 63.51.  
The King's E●ell, helped by a wonderful mean. pag. 63.52.  
A strange thing to r●yse them that have the falling sickness. pag. 65.53.  
To avoid the stone or gravel. pag. 65.54.  
To make beyond sea Azure. pag. 65.55.  
To make Pease leap out of the Pot. pag. 65.56.  
To ma●e Hens to lay great Eggs and often. pag. 65.57.  
To know whether they fear needles or not. pag. 65.58.  
For them that be much given to sleep. pag. 66.59.  
A pleasant oil of Cloves. pag. 66.60.  
A strange curing of the falling sickness. pag. 66.61.  
A wonderful thing passing all credit. pag. 67.62.  
eels breeds in cleansed Ponds. pag. 68.63  
To make a Bull tame. pag. 68.64.  
An excellent property of the Nettle. pag. 68.65.  
Good and evil signs in a mud man. pag. 68.66.  
astrological demonstrations of death. pag. 68.67.  
A notable medicine for breaking the wind in the belly. pag. 68.68.  
A special help for any ache. pag. 69.69.  
They that be borne at a certain time, will be weak in the act of generation. pag. 69.70.  
A notable remedy for the stone. pag. 69.71.  
A strange thing like a black Bird, will breed of Sage. pag. 69.72.  
To make that ●a●s shall not stray abroad. pag. 70.73.  
When and where to get Pearls. pag. 70.74.  
Fleas and Lies leau●s sick persons before their death. pag. 70.75.  
An excellent medicine for the gout. pa. 70.76  
●o draw water from Wine. pag. 70.77.  
A notable medicine to heal lame members. pag. 70.78.  
To still a most hot water. pag. 71.79.  
The marvelous knowledge of Hearts. pag. 71.80  
A Woman longed to eat of her husband's flesh. pag. 71.81.  
Leprous faces cured. pag. 72.82.  
They shall be hy● minded, strong, & famed for their strength and liberality, that are borne at a certain time. pag 72.83.  
An cast way to stench blood. pa. 72.84.  
A sure remedy to put away ●etters or ringwoormes. pag. 73.85.  
Excellent pills that helps the headache, brings gladness, and are good for the eyesyght. 〈◊〉. pag. 73.86.  
A Child borne at a certain time shall be hindered in his speech or tongue. pa. 73.87  
A man did bark like hounds. pa. 74.88.  
The eyes of young Swallows put out, will see again by a marvelous means. pag 74.89.  
To provoke sleep. pag. 74.90.  
A perfect way to heal lame members. pag. 74.91.  
It was a marvelous offence with the Egyptians to kill a Cat. pag. 75.92.  
To keep harness or Iron from rusting. pag. 75.93.  
They shall have riches without labour, that are borne at a certain time. pag. 75.94.  
A notable oil for the gout. pag. 75.95.  
An excellent thing to keep one safe from pason. pag. 76.96.  
A thing to make one sleep presently. pag. 76.97.  
A rare secret to cease bleeding. pag. 76.98.  
To draw out a tooth with ease and without any instrument. pag. 78.99.  
A sure medicine for them that be costy 〈◊〉. pag. 78.100.    


The Table of the fourth book.  
TO make Dwale that will 'cause one to sleep, whiles they are cut, whereby they shall feel no pain all the while. pag. 79.1.  
They that be borne at a certain time, will have grief's in their noses. etc. pag. 79.2.  
A precious thing to break the stone. pag. 79.3.  
To make a comb that will help head ache. pag. 80.4.  
A Ring procuring the virtue of st●rres. pag. 80.5.  
A strange help for the pains of the throat. pag. 80.6.  
An excellent thing for the gout. pa. 80.7.  
To make Iron of the colour of Brass. pag. 81.8.  
What Horses are deaf and doom. pa. 81.9  
To keep harness or Iron from rusting. pag. 81.10.  
To know whether one come to deceive thee or mean well or not. pag. 82.11.  
To lose the belly. pag. 82.12.  
The good effect of deafness in an ague, and bleeding at the nose. pag. 82.13.  
A divine medicine for the pleurisy. pa. 82.14  
A strange way to keep a woman from having a child with a Hare lip. pa. 83.15.  
To destroy any Impostu●e. pag. 83.16.  
To know Astrologicallye where any disease is either in the body or in the mind. pag. 83.17.  
A Queen droonke at one draft, the value of two hundredth and fifty thousand pound. pag. 84.18.  
The strange property of a Fig tree. pag. 84.19.  
The excellent virtue of Uarueyne in helping the falling sickness. pa. 84.20.  
A Child borne in a certain constellation, will be chief of his brethren. pag. 84.21.  
A notable way to put away the pains of s●aldng or burning with gun powder. pag. 85.22.  
To make silver Plate fair and white. pag. 85.23.  
A sure preservative from the Plague. pag. 85.24.  
A notable virtue of Pyony, in curing the falling sickness. pag. 86.25.  
Astrologicalles tokens of death of the sick. pag. 86.26.  
A rare way to make a woman be speedily delivered. pag. 86.27.  
To draw out the Oil of cinnamon. pag. 86.28.  
To pluck out a rotten or aching tooth with ease. pag. 87.29.  
An excellent proof whether one that hath the plague shall escape or not. pag. 87.30.  
The place where the Censors of Uenys syt●, is free from flies. etc. pag. 87.31.  
The first Child borne at a certain time, will be a boy. pag. 88.32.  
A sure medicine to take away the greatest & eldest pain of the head that is. pag. 88.33.  
A perfect medicine to kill worms in the belly. pag. 88.34.  
A dangerous time for the sick. pa. 88.35.  
The excellent virtue of gold. pag. 89.36.  
The nature of the water or goomme of the vine. pag. 89.37.  
The signs of death of such as have a consumption. pag. 89.38.  
An excellent Electuary preserving life, and hindering old age. pag. 89.39.  
A Lamp without fire to give light in the night. pag. 90.40.  
Excellent virtues of the Navel string. pag. 91.41.  
Gold found in vines. pag. 91.42.  
To know what place is best to devil in. pag. 91.43.  
Women like to be barren that are borne at a certain time. pag. 92.44.  
To make barren trees fruitful. pag. 92.45.  
A strange way to put away the quarten ague. pag. 92.46.  
That Gna●tes shall not trouble them that sleeps. pag. 93.47.  
Troubles and debates what day they shall happen. pag. 93.48.  
An excellent way to stay the Flux. pag. 93.49.  
To 'cause a woman be speedily delivered. pag. 93.50.  
A wonderful medicine in the time of pestilence. pag. 93.51.  
To keep one from being bitten with a mad dog. pag. 94.52.  
To help the griefs or stitches in the side. pag. 95.53.  
To see terrible and fearful Dreams. pag. 95.54.  
The hour of Venus' good to take journey in. pag. 95.55.  
To draw out worms out of the stomach. pag. 95.56.  
A great token of death when the Moon is nigh the Sun. etc. pag. 95.57  
An excellent medicine for pains of the heart. pag. 96.58.  
For the gout and swellings of the joints. pag. 96.59.  
A strange helping of the Swine pocks. pag. 96.60.  
A perfect medicine for the bloody flux. pag. 97.61.  
A rare help for the cr●mpe. pag. 97.62.  
They that are borne at a certain time, shall fall from some high place. etc. pag. 97.63.  
To cure the Dropsy. pag. 97.64.  
The great virtues of Eybright. pag. 97.65  
To pluck up a Canker by the roots. pag. 98.66.  
To know whether a woman be barren or not. pag. 98.67.  
To make Letters of the colour of what metal you rub the same withal. pa. 99.68  
To help the read & pympled face. pa. 99.69.  
To know whether the dropsy be hot or cold. pag. 99.70.  
To know whether the sick shall die of that sickness or not. pag. 99.71.  
An horrible murder bewrayed by young Swallows. pag. 100.72.  
For them that can not hold their water. pag. 100.73.  
A sign of recovery or health. pag. 100.74.  
Significations of dreams. pag. 100.75.  
To make a Sword have a sharp edge. pag. 101.76.  
To make that Ants go not up on trees. pag. 101.77.  
A child borne at a certain time, is like to be blind. pag. 101.78.  
To help the Re●●me. pag. 101.79.  
To conserve youth. pag. 102.80.  
Things prospers not after the words of some. pag. 102.81.  
To cease the Hiccup. pag. 102.82.  
Children borne in the earthquake. What follows. pag. 102.83.  
The nature of Sperma ceti. pag. 103.84.  
They that are borne in a certain constellation shall have impedun●e in their tongue. pag. 103.85.  
To cure the dropsy. pag. 103.86.  
Signs when a woman with two children, is like to loose one. pag. 103.87.  
To help or ease a hot or cold gout. pag. 103.88.  
The making of the flower of ointments. pag. 104.89.  
Signs of death by Astrology. pa. 105.90.  
A perfect way to cure the Splen. pa. 105.91  
Tokens of health in a sick body. pa. 105.92.  
To destroy a Carbuncle. pag. 105.93.  
To make the blac● sea coal soft. pa. 106.94.  
To help the stone. pag. 106.95.  
A strange example of a child borne without a mouth. pag. 106.96.  
The Wife shall die before the Husband. pag. 107.97.  
To help the Dropsy. pag. 107.98.  
To know perfect Bal●e. pa. 107.99.  
To help the falling sickness. pag. 107.100.    


¶ The Table of the fift book.  
TO make a Mare bring forth a F●ale of divers colours. pag. 108.1.  
To help the stone and the Dropsy. pag. 108.2.  
A Wolf fears to go in 〈◊〉 ways. pag. 108.3.  
They that are borne in a certain constellation, shall never marry. pag. 108.4.  
A help for the head ache. pag. 109.5.  
A water to provoke sleep. pag. 109.6.  
To destroy an Impostume in the head. pag. 109.7.  
Signifycations of dreams. pag. 109.8.  
To 'cause soft heairs to grow on the chin. pag. 110.9.  
A strange medicine for the swellings. pag. 110.10.  
To see true dreams. pag. 110.11.  
A help for the falling sickness. pa. 110.12.  
One borne at a certain time, shall die a natural death. pag. 110.13.  
A precious help for the Re●●m. pa. 111.14.  
To preserve youth. pag. 111.15.  
An excellent Garga●●●ne to cleanse the head and the breast. pag. 111.16.  
The sick party shall escape death without all hope. pag. 112.17.  
To cure perfectly the black jaundyes. pag. 112.18.  
To keep Children from breeding of Lice. pag. 112.19.  
The Cock rejoiceth contrary to all other Birds or Beasts. etc. pag. 113.20.  
A Child borne at a certain time will die of iron. pag. 113.21.  
To forbid the engendering of the Impostumation of the stomach. pag. 113.22.  
To restore sight to the blind. pag. 113.23.  
A Woman helped of the mother with the root of Bryony. pag. 113.24.  
A strange way to put away warts. pag. 114.25.  
A marvelous thing of a cocks Egg. pag. 114.26.  
A Child borne at a certain time will be hanged. pag. 114.27.  
An excellent purging of the head. pag. 114.28.  
Black sieges an evil sign. pag. 114.29.  
A notable medicine for the Collyck, Strangury and the stone. pag. 115.30.  
To breed children's teeth ●as●ly. pa. 115.31  
A strange nature of the Walnut. pa. 115.32  
To keep water hot without fire. pag. 115.33.  
To take madness from Dogs. pag. 116.34.  
To keep a Child safe until the due time of the birth, a rare secret. pag. 116.35.  
A strange thing to put away warts. pag. 116.36.  
signification that a Child will be hanged. pag. 116.37.  
To preserve one from head ache. pa. 117.38  
A strange medicine for the gout. pag. 117.39.  
To make a hot loaf leap. pag. 117.40.  
A notable oil of Saint john's wort. pag. 117.41.  
That no Flies shall touch any Beasts in the hot wether. pag. 118.42.  
One borne at a certain time will die by the commandment of the judge. pag. 118.43.  
To kill and heal any Can●er. pag. 118.44  
A precious water for mad men. pa. 118.45.  
They shall never loose their senses nor understanding, borne at a certain time. pag. 119.46.  
To make a glass with water burn a thing nigh to it. pag. 119.47.  
To make a sheep follow one. pag. 119.48.  
To know what one shall see in his dream. pag. 120.49.  
A strange way to help the quarteyn ague. pag. 121.50.  
To see the Sun Eclipsed without hurting of the eyes. pag. 121.51.  
Excellent virtues of plates of gold worn. pag. 121.52.  
A Child borne at a certain time, is like to perish by the hands of many. pag. 122.53.  
To preserve the stomach from any pain. pag. 122.54.  
A precious water that breaks the stone in the reins and in the bladder. pag. 122.55.  
Significations of dreams. pag. 122.56.  
To make Copper melt quickly. pa. 123.57.  
To keep Goats from straying. pag. 123.58.  
To keep Corn from hurtful storms. pag. 123.59.  
They will die in captivity that are borne at a certain time. pag. 123.60.  
An excellent ointment. pag. 123.61.  
A marvelous way to help any pains of the throat. pag. 124.62.  
A precious medicine for a red face. pag. 124.63.  
A burning candle found in an old tomb. pag. 124.64.  
What time is best to dig or make a well. pag. 125.65.  
A notable virtue of basil. pag. 125.67.  
The great virtue of Coriandar. pa. 125.68.  
A sign that the sick will die the next year after. pag. 125.69.  
To help a read pympled face. pag. 126.70.  
For the falling sickness. pag. 126.71.  
A dangerous thing to suffer a venomous worm or a mad Dog to live after one is hurt by the fame. pag. 126.72.  
To make Scorpions come into one place. pag. 126.73.  
One borne at a certain time, will die in prison. pag. 127.74.  
A notable help for the Splen. pag. 127.75.  
A precious oil of Balm. pag. 127.76.  
An excellent proved plaster, to destroy any Impostume, stitch, or swelling. pag. 127.77.  
Astrological lykelyhoods when the sick cannot be cured, but with great expenses. pag. 129.78.  
The great virtue of Egshels. pag. 129.79.  
The great virtue of Sugar. pag. 129.80.  
A strange thing of a young Wench. pag. 129.81.  
To deck a bald head with heairs. pag. 130.82.  
A Beast shall never conceive. pag. 130.83.  
A Dog that takes his disease of a man aught to be buried. pag 130.84.  
To cease the noise of Frogs. pag. 130.85.  
The whit thorn is never touched with lightning. pag. 131.86.  
Children borne at a certain time will be drowned. pag. 131.87.  
A present help for the stone. pag. 131.88.  
To make one look young a great while. pag. 131.89.  
To let heair from growing. pag. 131.90.  
To make one laxative. pag. 131.91.  
They are like to have the falling sickness that are borne at a certain time. pag. 132.92.  
That Fetters hurt not young Beasts. pag. 132.93.  
A notable medicine for the falling sickness. pag. 132.94.  
Garlic brought out a Serpent out of a man. pag. 132.95.  
A stone found in a Swallow, helps the falling sickness. pag 132.96.  
To know if a woman be conceived. pag. 133.97.  
Who shall be poor. pag. 133.98.  
To beawtify the face. pag. 133.99.  
To know whether the sick shall die or live. pag. 133.100.    


¶ The Table of the sixth book.  
TO turn any beast into a white colour. pag. 134.1.  
A precious thing to expel the stone. pag. 134.2.  
To know whether a Dream be good or not. pag. 134.3.  
A quick cure for the Hiccup. pag. 135.4.  
To find out him that hath doan a murder. pag. 135.5.  
To know whether water be in Wine or not. pag. 136.6.  
Planteyn is marvelous for the Plague. pag. 136.7.  
To know a lively or quick house. pa. 136.8.  
divers beasts, hates divers coloured garments. pag. 136.9.  
They that be borne at a certain time will die in the country. pag. 136.10.  
To heal the web in the eye. pag. 136.11.  
A proved oil which healeth the dropsy. pag. 136.12.  
A strange thing of a Butcher's wife. pag. 137.13.  
They that falls sick at a certain time are not like to escape. pag. 137.14.  
To take the hair away, and that it grow no more. pag. 138.15.  
To catch easily Ravens or Crows. pag. 138.16.  
Birds leaves their singing or are sick, according to the Stars. pag. 138.17.  
The child borne at a certain time will be imprisoned. pag. 139.18.  
A sure and proved medicine for the toothache. pag. 139.19  
To take away wrinkles, and spots in the face. pag. 139.20  
An excellent way to take foxes. pag. 139.21  
What women do hurt with their looking. pag. 140.22.  
What dead bodies remain uncorrupt. pag. 140.23.  
They shall die among strangers, that are borne in a certain constellation. pa. 140.24  
To take the blood or readnes out of the eyes. pag. 140.25.  
They shall never have the Colic, that useth a certain confection described. pag. 140.26.  
To make wood or bones read. pag. 141.27  
Sygnifycations of Dreams. pag. 141.28.  
To make ●lagging or hanging paps round. pag. 141.29.  
A wonderful thing of a Toad and a spider. pag. 141.30.  
A notable and approved powder for breaking ● consuming of the stone. pa. 142.31.  
A great virtue for the eyes, of the Oil of Paper. pag. 143.32.  
Signifycations that the sick party will kill himself. pag. 143.33.  
A spirit came to M. Brutus. pa. 143.34.  
The great virtue of Egremony for wounds pag. 143.35.  
Money received in Venus, how it will be spent. pag. 144.36.  
To rid one of an ancient dimness of sight. pag. 144.37.  
Whether a woman be conceived or not. pag. 144.38.  
A notable medicine for the stone. pa. 144.39  
A rare and true medicine for the tooth ach. pag. 145.40.  
Who shall have few children. pag. 145.41.  
To consume warts, a strange thing. pag. 145.42.  
Mice will make Elephants refuse their meat. pag. 145.43.  
Who shall die in prison. pag. 145.44.  
A notable medicine for to heal the Strangury. pag. 146.45.  
To make a woman bring forth her child without pain. pag. 146.46.  
To stop the bloody Flux. pag. 146.47.  
To prove whether a woman be with child or not. pag. 146.48.  
A crow will die, if he eat of the meat whereof the Wolf hath eaten before. pag. 147.49.  
The great power and virtue of a Bay tree. pag. 147.50.  
That Mice eat not written Papers. pag. 147.51.  
The hour of Mars is to be abhorred. pag. 147.52.  
To make cattle safe from diseases. pag. 147.53.  
A strange matter of the skin of a Lion. pag. 148.54.  
Colewoortes and Rew aught not to be sown nigh together. pa. 148.55.  
A miraculous thing for the destroying of worms in man or beast. pa 148.56.  
They that be borne at the conjunction of the Sun and Moon. pag. 149.57.  
The marvelous virtue of the seeds of Oculus Christi. pag. 149.58.  
A marvelous strange way to destroy warts. pag. 149.59.  
To make the Letters of the colour of paper. pag. 150.60.  
A wonderful matter of a woman transformed into a man. pag. 150.61.  
What children are like to have short life. pag. 151.62.  
A notable thing to heal old sores. pag. 151.63.  
An excellent help for the yellow jaundyes. pag. 151.64.  
When the sick is to be feared. pag. 152.65.  
What kind of chicken comes of the Egg. pag. 152.66.  
To make Amber as soft as clay. pa. 152.67  
The force of old leather in expelling Serpents. pag. 152.68.  
A precious thing for the Strangury. pag. 153.69.  
When the sick person is like to die. pag. 153.70.  
A notable medicine for the Sciatica. pag. 153.71.  
A good lesson for Physicians. pag. 153.72.  
The love of a Lizard to a man. pa. 153.73.  
A notable medicine to break the stone. pag. 154.74.  
Who shall go far and long journeys. pag. 154.75.  
A strange thing for them that have lost their voice. pag. 154.76.  
An excellent thing for the Palsy and the gout. pag. 155.77.  
To heal the Sciatica. pag. 155.78.  
To make a light to make the beholders yallowe. pag. 155.79.  
The strange nature of the dung of a Wolf. pag. 155.80.  
To pluck out thorns, an excellent thing. pag. 156.81.  
A marvelous History of a Lady that had by Imagination a Child like an Ethyopian. pag. 156.82.  
The strange property of certain flowers. pag. 157.83.  
〈◊〉 thought to be dead with the eating of He●locks. pag. 157.84.  
To take away the spot in the eye in three days. pag. 158.85.  
Things asked in the hours of Saturn or Mars, is a suspicion of evil. pa. 158.86.  
A marvelous way to help women, weakened their monthly disease. pag. 158.87.  
The strange breeding of Sinews. pag. 158.88.  
The great dyversitye between the leaves and seeds of Docks. pag. 159.89.  
To amend sourness or tartness of Wine. pag. 159.90.  
A strange medicine to help all Rheums, distyllations and watrines of the eyes. pag. 159.91.  
A Child borne in a certain constellation, will be mighty, wise, and a great Philosopher. pag. 159.92.  
To get a stone that will cure the dropsy. pag. 159.93.  
A marvelous medicine to kill the Canker. pag. 160.94.  
To destroy Tetiers and Ringwoormes. pag. 160.95.  
To break the stone. pag. 160.96.  
To drive away Crows or Birds from Corn that is sown. pag. 160.97.  
A strange help for the Colic. pa. 160.98.  
What people are evil. pag. 161.99.  
When bears shall arise in journeys. pag. 161.100.    


The Table of the seventh Book.  
A Help for all griefs of the bladder. pag. 162.1.  
A notable water for breaking of the stone. pag. 162.2.  
The strange breeding of Barnacles. pag. 163.3.  
To help them that are bewitched. pag. 163.4.  
Money delivered in the hour of the Moon. pag. 163.5.  
Great virtues of betony. pag. 163.6.  
To know whether one that is sick, will live or die. pag. 164.7.  
A great cure of one that was swollen. pag. 164.8.  
A good warning for purging or letting of blood. pag. 164.9.  
Good knowledge for the certainty of the wind. pag. 165.10.  
A strange help for the gout. pa. 165.11.  
A strange thing of Harp strings. pag. 165.12  
To cease the swelling of the yard. pag. 165.13.  
One foretold by Astrology, the speedy death of one that was sick. pag. 165.14.  
For the Stone an easy medicine. pag. 166.15.  
That writings shall not be read, unless the same be put first in the water. pag. 166.16.  
A notable medicine for an old pain in the head. pag. 166.17.  
To get the Toad stone. pag. 167.18.  
The strange generating of U●pers. pag. 167.19.  
To provoke the Flowers and after burden. pag. 168.20.  
An incredible help for the falling sickness. pag. 168.21.  
To cease the barking of Dogs. pag. 168.22  
S●●oes that will never be worn. pa. 168.23  
A strange thing to stop the blood. pag. 168.24.  
The fire shall not burn a thing cast into it. pag. 169.25.  
Fear or danger in long journeys. pag. 16●. 26.  
A miraculous thing in Ireland. pa. 169.27  
Whether the sick shall escape or not. pag. 169.28.  
To make a green that will last pa. 170.29  
To make Letters of gold. pa. 170.30.  
To know when Wheat will be cheap or dear. pag. 170.31.  
The Lion is more fierce against men▪ than women. pag. 171.32.  
The great virtue of nettle seed. pa. 171.33.  
To put a● Egg into a narrow mouthed grass. pag. 171 3●.  
To roast a dish of Better. pag. 171.35.  
To put away the tooth ache, a strange thing. pag. 172.36.  
They that are borne at a certain time, will be possessed with devils. pag. 172.37.  
A strange well. pag. 172.38.  
To handle fire without harm. pa. 172.39.  
An excellent time to take medicine. pag. 173.40.  
An excellent thing to clear the sight. pag. 173.41.  
To bring Pigeons to a dovehouse. pag. 173.42.  
To make an herb like Dragons. pa. 174.43  
To keep Hens safe from Foxes. pa. 174.44  
To help barrenness. pag. 174.45  
To know in what case a Ship with the men in her is, being absent. pag. 174.46.  
For swellings in a sore breast. pag. 175.47.  
To help a wound in the hand. pa. 175.48  
A special medicine to strengthen the back. pag. 175.49.  
For sore throats. pag. 175.50.  
They are devilish that are borne at a certain time. pag. 175.51.  
That Beasts be not bitten of the blind Mouse. pag. 175.52.  
A good lesson to be observed in Beasts that are with young. pag. 176.53.  
Who are like to see true dreams. pag. 176.54.  
A notable ointment for ●ny pain in the head. pag. 176.55.  
An excellent water for hearing. pa. 177.56.  
A Wren will turn at the fire by itself. pag. 177.57.  
To make fine pictures and vessels with small coast. pag. 177.58.  
When the mother shall be of short life. pag. 178.59.  
To take away the hardness of women's p●ps. pag. 178.60.  
To help mad ●●en. pag. 178.61.  
A precious thing for burning. pag. 178.62.  
To 'cause one make water. pag. 178.63.  
To hatch Chycke●s without a Hen. pag. 179.64.  
The strange virtue of the Meddler. pag. 179.65.  
That toasted or sodden flesh seem bloody. pag. 179.66.  
Of quick and slow delivering out of prison. pag. 179.67.  
To heal a scald head. pag. 180.68.  
To destroy warts. pag. 180.69.  
A Dog taught to do the office of a servant. pag. 180.70.  
A most extreme famine. pag. 180.71.  
To drive forth sand out of the reins. pag. 181.72.  
To 'cause speedy deliverance of a Child. pag. 181.73.  
That scalding be not seen. pag. 181.74  
To draw out a tooth easily. pag. 181.75.  
To put away freckles in the face. pag. 182.76.  
To help the Elf cake in the side. pa. 182.77.  
To help shaking hands. pag. 182.78.  
To know a right Toad stone. pa. 182.79.  
To make that Garlic shall not smell. pag. 182.80.  
An easy medicine for the gout. pa. 183.81.  
An argument of death. pa. 183.82.  
To make a Woman be speedily delivered. pag. 183.83.  
To know who shallbe gelded. pag. 184.84.  
To make that no Dog bark at you. pag. 184.85.  
To put away the quarten ag●●. pa. 184.86  
To help ●●●olde and incurable gow●e. pag. 184.87.  
A notable medicine for the falling sickness. pag. 184.88.  
An excellent ointment for the gout. pag. 185.89.  
To destroy an Itch. pag. 185.90.  
To make a candle that will not be put out. pag. 185.91.  
An excellent oil for the Sinews and ache of the joints. pag. 185.92.  
To bring worms and hurtful things in a garden, into one place. pag. 186.93.  
A token of the father's short life. pa. 186.94.  
To help pains and deafness of the ears. pag. 186.95.  
A proved water to heal the fistula. pag. 186.96.  
That horses be lively & quick. pag. 187.97.  
To make a horse piss. pa. 187.98.  
A marvelous & precious water. pa. 187.99.  
For wind or sounding in the ears. pag. 188.100.    


The Table of the eight book.  
TO make vinegar presently. pag. 189.1.  
The strange property of the Wolf. pag. 189.2.  
Deadly w●●re between the Hawk and the Eagle. pag. 189.3.  
To take Birds that eats seeds that are sown. pag. 189.4.  
An evil hour to take journey on the seas. pag. 189.5.  
Approved Pyls for the Palsy. pa. 190.6.  
A strange thing of a woman with child. pag. 190.7.  
To turn white wine into read. pag. 190.8.  
A rare medicine for the cough. pag. 191.9.  
Who shall possess greater richeses and honours, than their Ancestors. pa. 191.10.  
To clear a dim sight. pag. 191.11.  
A marvelous medicine for wounds and sores. pag. 192.12.  
A strange diversity between dead men, and dead women. pag. 192.13.  
The great virtue of Marygooldes. pag. 192.14.  
A rare thing to help the gout. pa. 193.15.  
If one do come or send to thee in a good hour. pag. 193.16.  
To 'cause a speedy birth of a Child. pag. 193.17.  
To know whether one that is sick, will live or die. pag. 193.18.  
To help them that be deaf. pag. 193.19.  
To draw out a tooth without any pain. pag. 194.20.  
A ●awe that no sick person should drink Wine. pag. 194.21.  
Whether any water be mixed with Wine or not. pag. 194.22.  
To increase Pigeons in a dovehouse. pag. 194.23.  
An excellent thing for deafness. pag. 1●4. 24.  
One did foretell of the time of the death of one that was sick, by Astrology. pag. 194.25.  
For ache in the bones or in any other place. pag. 195.26.  
They that be gelded are never gouty. pag. 196.27.  
A proud and vain glorious Emperor. pag. 196.28.  
It is not good to bury any too hastily. pag. 196.29.  
A notable medicine for shortness of breath. pag. 197.30.  
To break the great heat of Wine in the vessel. pag. 197.31.  
To keep any part of the body from cold. pag. 197.32.  
To keep clothes & books from moths. pag. 198.33.  
To help a long continued deafness. pag. 198.34.  
A precious powder to concern the sight. pag. 198.35.  
To get out the water out of swollen legs. pag. 198.36.  
Aqua vite good for the eyes. pag. 199.37.  
To join or knit wounds. pag. 199.38.  
A water more precious than gold. pag. 199.39.  
To 'cause a woman be speedily delivered. pag. 200.40.  
A blessed water for the gout. pa. 200.41.  
To drive away Backs or Rearemyce. pag. 201.42.  
To know whether you shall obtain that thing you hope for, or not. pag. 201.43.  
A present help for the toothache. pag. 201.44.  
To resolve the soreness, and swellings of the throat. pag. 201.45.  
For the weakness and pains in the back. pag. 202.46.  
To make one sing clear, and to have a clear voice. pag. 202.47.  
The strange property of mints. pa. 203.48  
A dangerous hour to fall sick in. pag. 203.49.  
To break a tooth and to take away the pain. pag. 203.50  
●uido bonatus, learnedly foretold a great danger to the Emperor, by his revolution. pag. 203.51  
A marvelous matter of a woman with child. pag. 204.52.  
A child borne in a certain time, will be a Shipman or a Sailor. pag. 205.53.  
A perfect help for the Gout. pag. 205.54.  
To restore the deaf to hearing. pa. 205.55.  
A notable thing to stop the rewine. p. 206.56  
To help the Pocks in the eyes. pa. 206.57  
When the Physician shall not profit the sick. pag. 206.58.  
To make a tooth to fall out by the root. pag. 207.59.  
To restore one that is brought low pag. 207.60.  
A noble receipt for the black jaundyes. pag. 208.61.  
Bettonye is marvelous good for the gout. pag. 208.62.  
An excellent thing for the pluresye and the stuffed stomach. pag. 208.63  
To make goats give much milk. p. 209.64  
He that is borne at a certain time, willbe a master Carpenter. pag. 209.65.  
To cease the outrageous pain of the gout. pag. 209.66.  
A most approved medicine for the Gout. pag. 209.67.  
To catch Birds with your hands. pag. 209.68.  
To make a woman be speedily delivered. pag. 210.69.  
A true medicine for the Gout. pa. 210.70  
To kindle a Candle and to burn in the water. pag. 210.71.  
To make that a Ram shall not put. pag. 211.72.  
A good hour to fall sick in. pag. 211.73.  
A present help for the tooth ache. pa. 211.74  
A warranted medicine for the Gout. pag. 211.75.  
A special medicine for all sudden sickness. pag. 211.76.  
A strange medicine for the yellow Iaundye●. pag. 211.77.  
To help the ●●ad ache and swimming of the head. pag. 212.78.  
To make a Cock stout to fight. p. 212.79  
A strange thing of Myce. pag. 212.80.  
For the kings Evil a rare thing. pag. 212.81.  
Who shallbe fortunate and happy. etc. pag. 212.82.  
A marvelous water to recover the sight. pag. 213.83.  
To make ● light that never shall fayl●. pag. 213.84.  
To make a swine follow one. pag. 214.85.  
What thing drives away Bees. pag. 214.86.  
A good hour to take journey in, for getting of unlooked profit. pag. 214.87.  
To stay the bleeding of the nose presently. pag. 214.88.  
That writings appear of the colour of the paper, and not to be read unless it be holden against the fire. pag. 214.89.  
To gild Iron or Copper. pag. 215.90.  
To make an egg very hard. pag. 215.91.  
To make a read Rose white. pag. 215.92.  
To separate gold from any thing gilded. pag. 215.93.  
To know whether the sick will live or die: a strange practise. pa. 216.94.  
To stay the bloody Flux. pag. 216.95.  
An easy plaster for the gout, but of great effect. pag. 216.96.  
To destroy any Impostumation, and to avoid the same. pag. 217.97.  
He that is borne in a certain constellation, will be a good Physician. pag. 217.98.  
A strange thing of a little Bird. pa. 218.99.  
He will die in prison, that is borne at a certain time. pag. 218.100.    


The Table of the ninth book.  
THe wonderful virtue of Egremony, in helping them that be poisoned. etc. pag. 219.1.  
A marvelous Oil of Balm for trembling and the Palsy, and for helping the memory. pag. 219.2.  
The hoof of a certain Beast, will cure perfectly the falling Evil, a marvelous thing. pag. 220.3.  
A proved thing for the spytting of blood. pag. 221.4.  
A precious and an easy medicine for the Carbuncle, Plague sore, Botch, bile, etc. pag. 221.5.  
Tokens of death in the sick person. pag. 221.6.  
Pottage that will help perfectly the yellow jaundice. pag. 222.7.  
Serpent's hates marvelously the A●h tree. pag. 222.8.  
Who will procure their own enmity. pag. 222.9.  
juniper be●ryes marvelous against poisons. pag. 222.10.  
To try whether precious stones be pure or not. pag. 222.11.  
A principal medicine for the bone ache. pag. 223.12.  
To help the pains in the back. pa. 223.13  
To catch Moles or Wonts. pa. 223.14.  
To help the fistula outward or inward. pag. 224.15.  
For them that have surfeyted. pag. 224.16.  
To pluck away carnal and fleshly lust, a very strange thing. pag. 224.17.  
For them that cannot eat. pag. 224.18.  
A present help for such as have drunken poison. pag. 224.19.  
To let heair from growing. pag. 225.20.  
The Lapwing foreshows the great plenty of Wine. pag. 225.21.  
A good hour to deliver money in. pag. 225.22.  
A precious drink which cureth the fistula. pag. 225.23.  
To make a woman be delivered incontinent. pag. 226.24.  
To make a fair colour in the face. pag. 226.25.  
To make one hear again. pa. 227.26.  
To make Copper or Brass of the colour of Silver. pag. 227.27.  
That Serpents can not go out of the place where they are. pag. 227.28.  
Anger or enmities will come to them through money, that are borne at a certain time. pag. 227.29.  
To heal a hollow Ulcer. pag. 227.30.  
To separate gold from any thing that is gilded. pag. 227.31.  
For them that can not hear. pag. 228.32.  
For the fundament that goeth forth. pag. 228.33.  
For blea●ed eyes. pag. 228.34.  
A Harte can not abide the sight of a Ram. pag. 229.35.  
A strange thing foretold by a Child newly borne. pag. 229.36.  
A proved thing for the Palsy. pag. 230.37.  
To help s●olne legs. pag. 230.38.  
What makes men be without the gout. pag. 230.39.  
A strange cure of one bitten with a Scorpion. pag. 230.40.  
A miraculous oil. pag. 231.41.  
To put a writing into an Eg. pa. 232.42  
Beast's are according to the proportion of the inward parts. pag. 232. ●3.  
He that is borne at a certain time shall consume his goods or come to poverty or misery. pag. 233.44.  
The great virtue of Egruno●y. pag. 233 45.  
For the web or spot in the eye. pa. 233.46  
The great virtue of tormentil. pag. 234.47.  
Who shallbe poor and a wretch. pag. 234.48.  
A good medicine for them that are short breathed. pag. 235.49.  
A strange medicine for helping women's sore breasts. pag. 235.50,  
To help swollen arms, legs or 〈◊〉. pag. 236.51.  
To help a stinking breath, a tried medicine. pag. 236.52.  
What day is unlucky to a child borne. pag. 236.53.  
To destroy warts. pag. 236.54  
To put away or consume a W●n. pag. 237.55.  
A singular oil to bewty●ye the face. pag. 237.56.  
A notable medicine for ache or the Gout. pag. 237.57.  
A precious water for eyes. pag. 238.58  
Who shall die a fowl or evil death. pag. 238.59.  
To take warts clean away. pag. 239.60  
The cods that are swollen. pag. 239.61  
To break a bile, Botch, or a Felon. pag. 239.62.  
A notable secret for all incurable aches. pag. 239.63.  
For swollen or sore throats, a rare remedy. pag. 240.64.  
For a great heat and pricking in the eyes. pag. 240.65.  
He that is borne at a certain time, shall never die an evil death. pag. 241.66  
A wonderful drink for brusynges. pag. 241.67.  
To drive forth the stone in the bladder. pag. 241.68.  
To help the Palsy. pag. 241.69.  
An excellent remedy for many diseases. pag. 242.70.  
For the strangury, a strange medicine. pag. 242.71.  
A proved medicine for the Sciatica. pag. 242.72.  
The great virtue of Sugar, for eyes. pag. 242.73.  
They that sets forward to the Sea, in a certain hour are like to be drowned. pag. 243.74.  
For to help deafness, a tried medicine. pag. 244.75.  
The making of an excellent Aqua vite. pag. 244.76.  
To make sweet water forth with. pag. 245.77.  
A precious oil for cold aches. pa. 245.78.  
To avoid the dropsy water. pa. 245.79.  
To make a Ca●on bring up young chickens. pag. 246.80.  
A learned Astronomer foretold one of his death. pag. 246.81  
A strange longing of a woman with child. pag. 247.82.  
A marvelous strange help for swollen legs of beasts or horses. pag. 247.83.  
To put away any spots or steyninges. pag. 248.84.  
To make any bird to have white feathers. pag. 248.85.  
A marvelous strange help for the stone. pag. 248.86.  
An excellent wried secret for divers inward griefs. pag. 249.87.  
To make Coral by art. pag. 250.88.  
An excellent thing for deaf●es. pag. 250.89  
To deliver a woman of a dead Child. pag. 250.90.  
To make an Apple move. pag. 250.91  
To kill all the fleas in a chamber. pag. 251.92.  
A Lady swallowed pins without harm. pag. 251.93.  
That Roses smell more pleasantly and grow the better. pag. 251.94.  
A notable oil wherewith one got much money. pag. 251.95.  
An excellent sweet water. pag. 252.96  
To make that chickens be hatched of divers culloures. pag. 253.97.  
To make that Horse nor sheep shall go forward though you beat them. p. 253.98  
The age of certain Bea●●es and Birds. pag. 253.99.  
The great virtue of the water that comes out of the Byrtch tree. pag. 253.100.    


The Table of the tenth Book.  
A Sraunge thing of the Myrt tree and the Olive tree. pag. 254.1.  
A sure help for the mother pa. 254.2  
Pigeons defended from the spar Hawk. their enemy. pag. 254.3.  
An easy help for the Gout. pag. 255.4  
A learned prediction of an Astronomer. pag. 255.5.  
The great virtue of the Adamant stone, ● or the Dropsy. pag. 255.6.  
A miraculous thing of them that be murdered. pag. 255.7.  
The great virtue of Amber, for the w●trines of the eyes. pag. 256.8.  
A woman went with a dead Child above four years. pag. 256.9.  
To make one loathe wine. pag. 256.10  
How beasts chances to become ●ame. pag. 257.11.  
To make a white and delicate skin. pag 257.12.  
One did piss a knotted barley straw. pag. 257.13.  
To help lame members. pag. 257.14  
A strange th●●ge to help the tooth ache. pag. 257.15.  
A notable help for the memory. pa. 258.16  
A rare help for the quarten ague. pag. 258.17.  
For the ●aund●se and the dropsy. pag. 258.18.  
To part any glass a sunder. pag. 259.19.  
To help the dropsy, a tried thing. pag. 259.20.  
A strange description of the Besaar stone. pag. 259.21.  
A water which certainly will heal the Fystul●. pag. 264.22  
A Candle that will not be put out with the wind. pag. 265.23.  
The getting of the stones out of young Swallows, and of their excellent virtues. pag. 265.24.  
A marvelous strange wa●e to breed Eels. pag. 265.25.  
The vine agrees not with the Bay tree. pag. 266.26.  
An Image of gold helps the head ache. pag. 266.27.  
To colour bristles. pag. 266.28.  
To make the teeth fall easily out. pa. 267.29  
To destroy the web in the eye. pa. 267.30  
Aqua vite, with Sugar and pure white bread, is good for grosie bodies. pa. 267.31  
To make a Candle burn under the water▪ pag. 268.32.  
To make a Ring leap by itself. pag. 268.33.  
To make iron soft. pag. 268.34.  
A strange longing of a woman with child. pag. 268.35.  
A precious water distilled of centaury. pag. 269.39.  
To make a bladder ●●ape from place to place. pag. 269.37.  
A notable water for beautifying the face. pag. 270.38.  
To fasten things hard together. pag. 270.39  
An angelic water for the eyes. pag. 271.40.  
An excellent water, called the golden water. pag. 27●. 41.  
To heal incurable ulcers. pag. 274.42.  
For the great heat of the urine. pag. 275.43.  
A notable and excellent Balm. pa. 275.44  
To make steel as soft as passed. pa. 277.45  
A present help for the plague. pa. 277.46.  
T●o wonderful Stones. pag. 278.47.  
To make a Stone that will turn, by moistening it with spittle. pag. 280.48.  
To make an Egg ascend into the air. pag. 281.49.  
A Glue that fasteneth glass together. pag. 281.50.  
To destroy caterpillars. pag. 283.51.  
To make 〈…〉 in the 〈◊〉. pag. 28. 5●.  
A dangerous time to fall 〈◊〉 in. p. 282.53  
To know a 〈◊〉 stone. pag. 282.54  
To destroy a 〈◊〉 or ringworm. pag. 283.55.  
To make a Candle of Ice to burn. pag. 283.56.  
If 〈◊〉 fall sick at a certain time, it sygnyfyes 〈◊〉 sickness. pag. 183.57.  
A good 〈◊〉 dredge powder. pa. 284.58  
Every woman do not go a like tim● with their children. pag. 284.59  
An excellent thing for any ache. pa. 285.60  
To have Bea●●●●●yse of once se●ting pag. 285.61.  
To help dim eyes. pa. 286.62.  
A most excellent oil of balm, which will help all cold diseases. pag. 286.63  
A strange reviving of flies. pag. 290.64.  
To hau● Roses twice in one Summer. pag. 290.65.  
A strange Herb that keeps one from hunger. pag. 291.66  
Uenemous beast's driven away. p. 291.67  
To kill mice. pag. 292.68.  
A 〈◊〉 that helps the gout. pa. 292.69.  
To have yellow Roses. pag. 292.70.  
That mice shall not eat Cheese. p. 292.71.  
A 〈◊〉 which will show whether the sick will live or die. pag. 292.72  
〈…〉 better to wash withal then soap. pag. 293.73.  
For women's breasts swollen or sore. pag. 293.74.  
For the M●rphew and scumines of the face. pag. 293.75.  
A preservative against the Plague. pag. 294.76.  
To bring Ants out of the ground. pag. 294.77.  
To 'cause 〈◊〉 to 〈◊〉 Water, a strange medicine. pag. 294.78.  
To keep 〈◊〉 from We●elles or ●ice. pag. 295.79.  
When you 〈◊〉 see the Cuc●●●, mark where your right foot doth stand. etc. pag. 295.80.  
To make one soluble. pag. 295.81  
The great age of Hearts. pag. 295.82  
To glue fast together broken Glasses. pag. 296.83.  
For them that have an extreme heat and burning Fever. pag. 296.84.  
Who are not like to marry before they be thirty years of age. pag. 296.85.  
To know when flesh is sod enough. pag. 297.86.  
A marvelous thing of ivy 〈◊〉. pag. 297.87.  
The ●ones of Hens consumes gold. pag. 298.88.  
To make fair culloured hair. pa. 298.89  
A notable help for the gow●. pa. 298.90.  
● marvelous help for the head. pa. 298.91.  
A thing worth the marking. pa. 299.92.  
To know how many days old the 〈◊〉 is, a very strange thing. pag. 299.93.  
A marvelous matter of a woman that was buryer. pag. 299.94.  
To bring forth Meddlers out of a Hawthorne. pag. 300.95.  
A strange thing of the little bird called the King's fisher. pag. 300.96  
A girdle that will keep one from drowning. pag. 300.97.  
A Lady that makes flesh sooner to be sod. pag. 301.98.  
Poison is described by a Partritche. pag. 302.99.  
To know where the wind will be. pag. 302.100.    
FINIS.