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away an innate beauty, and when he has done, knows how 

 ta restore it again ? Or she that teaches a company of 

 wanton lasses to paint their faces? If Mars be in a Virgin, 

 in the nativity, they say he causeth the cholic, (it is well 

 God hath set somebody to pull down the pride of man.) 

 He in the Virgin troubles none with the cholic, but them 

 that know not themselves (for who knows himself, may 

 easily know all the world.) Wormwood, an herb of 

 Mars, is a present cure for it ; and whether it be most like 

 a christian to love him for his good, or hate him for his 

 evil, judge ye. I had almost forgotten, that charity 

 thinks no evil. 1 was once in the Tower and viewed the 

 wardrobe, and there was a great many fine cloaths : (I can 

 give them no other title, for I was never either linen or 

 woollen. draper) yet as brave as they looked, my opinion 

 was that the moths might consume them ; moths are 

 under the dominion of Mars ; this herb Wormwood being 

 laid among cloaths, will make a moth scorn to meddle 

 with the cloaths, as much as a lion scorns to meddle with 

 a mouse, or an eagle with a fly. Melancholy men can- 

 not endure to be wronged in point of good fame, and that 

 doth sorely trouble old Saturn, because they call him the 

 greatest unfortunate ; in the body of man he rules the 

 spleen ; (and that makes covetous men so splenetic) the 

 poor old man lies crying out of his left side. Father 

 Saturn's angry.. Mars comes to him ; Come, brother, 

 I- confess thou art avil spoken of, and so am I : thou 

 knowest I have my exaltation in thy house, I give him 

 an herb of mine. Wormwood, to cure the poor man : 

 Saturn consented, but spoke little, and Mars cured him 

 by sympathy. When Mars was free from war, (for he 

 loves to be fighting, and is the best friend a soldier hath) 

 I say, when Mars was free from war, he called a council 

 of war in his own brain, to know how he should do poor 

 sinful man good, desiring to forget his abuses in being 

 called an unfortunate. He musters up, hjs own forces, 

 and places thorn in battalia. Oh! ijuoth he, why do I 

 hurt a poor silly man or woman ? His angel answers him. 

 It is because they have otfended theii (jlod. (Look back 

 to Adam!) Well, says Mars, though ihey speak evil of 

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