of the Hearbe Eſcuerconera. Foling, 
fea Berimgena Which is a fruit of & paine, and the fone bes 
ing brought nat a little to our contentment,eucry one gaue 
their iudgemẽt, x it was agrer d at ſuch time as he ſhould 
ſotonde, it chould pꝛeſently be giuen him: and the ſounding 
being tome in the euening he take fooꝛth with the appoin 
tedoꝛder, which was brought from the court, that he ould 
take foothwith the waight of thꝛee graines of the pouder 
ofthe lone, and it ſhould bee caſt in water of Oxetongue fe 
much as might be lutficient foꝛ him and ſd it was dane. Ds 
pening his mouth hee ſwallowed it downe tze which he did 
with much diffitultie: within the ſpace ol halle a quarter of 
an houre, after hee had taken it: he retouered as eaſtix, as 
though he had not had it. And ſeing the vertue that was in 
the ſtone, we did eſteeme it much: and the moze for that we 
ſawe that euer time it toke hun, he tame to himſelfe fo eas 
ſily / when he toke not the ſtone, the founding did continue 
long, and hee returned from it with greate patnes, and in 
long time it feafed not: but when the fone was giuen him 
be came quickly to him ſelfe, and with great eaſineſſe· as 
though he had not had any founding at all. y Lady the 
Duches carried the ſtone in her purſe, and had the quantity 
that he chould take alwaies in a redineſſe, becauſe when 
the founding came to him, it might bee giuen him with 
moꝛe (pede, bycauſe hee ſhoulde not bee long in paine: ſo 
that from the time that he receined it, his ſoundinges came 
nat to him ſacontinually as they did before. This being per⸗ 
ceiued, ſaide one day to my Lady, that it was the docrine 
ot Philitions, that the medicines which doe not heale diſ⸗ 
eaſes, cannot pꝛeſerue that we fall not into them, dut that it 
ſemied good to mee that wee ſhoulde giue nts bim euerte 
moꝛning the pouder ofthe 8-zaar lone, that with the contts 
nuall vſe theres, the vapour might bee conſumed which did 
rpfe uptothe bꝛaines, fe that that feemeth to be venomen 
and hurttul the fone would extingnich and sil, and woe 
eanſume the vapour . | ä 
