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and no hottef. It remedies the evils choler cao inflidl on 

 the body of man by sympathy. It helps the evils Venus 

 and the wanton boy produce, by antipathy; and it doth 

 something else besides. It cleanseth the body of choler 

 (who dares say Mars doth no good ?) It provokes urine, 

 helps surfeits, or swellings in the belly ; it causeth ap- 

 petite to meat, because ilars rules the attractive faculty in 

 man. The sun never shone upon a better herb for the 

 yelloM' jaundice than this. AVhy should men cry out so 

 much upon Mars for an unfortunate, (or Saturn either?) 

 Did God make creatures to do the creation a mischief? 

 This herb testifies, that Mars is willing to cure all diseases 

 he causes ; the truth is, Mars loves no cowards, nor Saturn 

 fools, nor I neither. Take of the iiowers of \VormMood, 

 Rosemary, and Black I'horn, of each a like quantity, half 

 that quantity of salfron ; boil this in Rhenish wine, but 

 \mt it not in saftron till it is almost boiltid : this is the way 

 to keep a man's body in health, appointed by Camera- 

 rius, iu his book intitled, IJortus Medicus, and it is a 

 good one too. Besides all this, W ormwood provokes the 

 terms. I would Avillingly teach astrologers, and make 

 them physiciins (if 1 knew how) for they are most fittin"- 

 for the calling. 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 with mice, bnt they are a little bigger ; 

 JNIars receives his fail in Cancer, ergo, Wormwood beinf 

 an herb of Mars, is a present remedy for the biting of rats 

 and mice. Mushrooms (I cannot give them the title of 

 llerba, Frutex, or Arbor) are under the dominion of 

 Saturn, (and take one time with another, they do as much 

 harm as good:) if any have poisoned himself by eating 

 them. Wormwood, an herb of Mars, cures him, because 

 Mars is exalted iu Capricorn, the house of Saturn, and 

 that it doth by sympathy, as it did the others by antipathy. 

 Wheals, pushes, black and blue spots, coming either by 

 bruises or beatiugs. Wormwood, an herb of Mars, he'ps, 

 because Mars, (as bad as you love him, and as you hate 

 him) will not break your head, but he will give you » 

 plaister. If he do but teach you to know yourselves, his 

 courtesy is greater thaa his discourtesy. The greatest 



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