Si2 THE ENGLISH PHYSICIAN ENLAHGED. 



me, I will do good to them ; Death's cold, ray herb shall 

 heat th«m ; they are full of ill humours (else they would 

 never Jiave spoken ill of me :) my herb shall cleanse them, 

 and dry thera ; they arc poor weak creatures, my herb 

 shall strengthen them ; they are dull-witted, my herb 

 shall fortify their aj)i)rehensious ; and vet among astrolo- 

 gers all this does not deserve a good word : Oh the patience 

 of Mars ! 



Felix qui pottiit renitn cogtioscere caiisas, 

 hique (Ivmus super'um scandere cuju facit. 

 Oh happy he that can the knc-wledge gain, 

 To know th' eternal God made Bought in rain. 

 To this 1 add, 



1 know the reason canseth such a dearth 

 Of knowledge ; 'tis because men love the earth. 

 The other day Mars told me he met with Venus, and 

 ho asked her %vhat was the reason that she accused him 

 of abusing women ? He never gave them the pox. In 

 the dispute they ftll our, and in anger ])arted, and Mars 

 told me that his brother Saturn told him, that an anli- 

 Ycnerean medicine was the best against the pox. Once 

 a month he meets with the Moon. Mars is quick enough 

 of speech, and the Moon not much behind hand, (neither 

 are most women.) The moon looks much after children, 

 and children are much troubled with the worms; she 

 desired a medicine of him, he bid her take his own herb, 

 Wormwood. He had no sooner parted with the mooa 

 but he met with Venus, and she was as drunk as a bitch : 

 alas ! poor Vonus, quoth he, What ? thou a fortune, and 

 be drunk ? I'll give thee an antipathetical cure ; take my 

 herb, Wormwood, and thou shalt never get a surfeit by- 

 drinking. A poor silly countryman hath got an ague, 

 and cannot go about his business : he wishes he had it not, 

 and so do I; but I will tell him a remedy, whereby he 

 shall prevent it: Take the herb of Mars, Wormwood, 

 and if infortunes Avill do good, what will fortunes do ? 

 Some think the lungs are under vTupiter ; and if the lungs, 

 then the breath ; and though sometimes a man gets a 

 stinking breath, and yet Jupiter is a fortune, forsooth ; up 

 comes Mars to him; Come, brother Jupiter, thou kuowest 

 1 sent thee a couple of trines to thv house last night, the 



