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nor J neither.” “I would willingly teach astrologers, 
and make them physicians (if I knew how), for they 
are most fitting for the calling ; if you will not believe 
me, ask Dr. Hippocrates and Dr. Galen, a couple of 
gentlemen that our college of physicians keep to 
vapour with, not to follow. In this our herb, I shall 
give the pattern of a ruler, the sons of art rough cast, 
yet as near the truth as the men of Benjamin could 
throw a stone; whereby my brethren the astrologers 
may know by a penny how a shilling is coined: as 
for the college of physicians they are too stately 
to learn and too proud to continue. They say a 
mouse is under the dominion of the Moon, and that 
is the reason they feed in the night; the house of 
the Moon is Cancer; rats are of the same nature 
as mice, but they are a little bigger; Mars receives 
his fall in Cancer, exgo Wormwood being an herb of © 
Mars, is a present remedy for the biting of rats and 
mice.” 
“Wheals, pushes, black and blue spots, coming 
either by bruises or beatings, Wormwood, an herb of 
Mars, helps, because Mars (as bad as you love him, and 
as you hate him) will not break your head, but he will 
sive you a plaister. If he do but teach you to know 
yourself, his courtesy is greater than his discourtesy.” 
“Suppose a man be bitten or stung by a martial 
creature, imagine a wasp, a hornet, a scorpion, Worm- 
wood, an herb of Mars, giveth you a present cure; 
then Mars, choleric as he is, hath learned that 
patience, to pass by your evil speeches of him, and 
tells you by my pen, That he gives you no affliction, 
but he gives you a cure; you need not run to Apollo, 
