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body of man by sympathy. It helps the \ herb of Mars, is a present remedy for die 

 evils Venus and the wanton Boy produce, j biting of rats and mice. Mushrooms (I 

 by antipathy; and it doth something else! cannot give them the title of Herba, Fru- 

 besides. It cleanses the body of cholerjtex, or Arbor) are under the dominion of 

 (who dares say Mars doth no good?) It ] Saturn, ( and take one time with another, 

 provokes urine, helps surfeits, or swellings Uhey do as much harm as good ;) if any have 

 in the belly; it causes appetite to meat, j poisoned himself by eating them, Worm- 

 because Mars rules the attractive faculty in j wood, an herb of Mars, cures him, because 

 man: The sun never shone upon a better | Mars is exalted in Capricorn, the house of 

 herb for the yellow jaundice than this; Why \ Saturn, and this it doth by sympathy, as it 

 should men cry out so much upon Mars for \ did the other by antipathy. Wheals, pushes, 

 an infortunate, (or Saturn either?) Did ; black and blue spots, coming either by 

 God make creatures to do the creation a j bruises or beatings. Wormwood, an herb 

 mischief? This herb testifies, that Mars is | of Mars, helps, because Mars, (as bad you 

 willing to cure all diseases he causes; the Move him, and as you hate him) will not 

 truth is, Mars loves no cowards, nor Saturn ; break your head, but he will give you a 

 fools, nor I neither. Take of the flowers of i plaister. If he do but teach you to know 

 Wormwood, Rosemary, and Black Thorn, : yourselves, his courtesy is greater than is 

 of each a like quantity, half that quantity ! discourtesy. The greatest antipathy be- 

 of saffron; boil this in Rhenish wine, butj.tween the planets, is between Mars and 

 put it not in saffron till it is almost boiled ; j Venus: one is hot, the other cold; one 

 This is the way to keep a man's body in j diurnal, the other nocturnal; one dry, the 

 health, appointed by Camerarius, in his j other moist ; their houses are opposite, one 

 book intitled Horttis Medians, and it is a i masculine, the other feminine ; one public, 

 good one too. Besides all this, Wormwood * the other private ; one is valiant, the other 

 provokes the terms. I would willingly j effeminate: one loves the light, the other 

 teach astrologers, and make them physi-j hates it ; one loves the field, the other sheets; 

 cians (if I knew how) for they are most j then the throat is under Venus, the quinsy 

 fitting for the calling; if you will not believe Mies in the throat, and is an inflammation 

 me, ask Dr. Hippocrates, and Dr. Galen, \ there; Venus rules the throat, (it being 

 a couple of gentlemen that our college of j under Tamus her sign.) Mars eradicates 

 physicians keep to vapour with, not to j all diseases in the throat by his herbs (for 

 follow. In this our herb, I shall give the pat- j wormwood is one) and sends them to Egypt 

 tern of a ruler, the sons of art rough cast, j on an errand never to return more, this 

 yet as near the truth as the men of Benja- \ done by antipathy. The eyes are under 

 min could throw a stone : Whereby, my i the Luminaries ; the right eye of a man, 

 brethren, the astrologers may know by a; and the left eye of a woman the Sun claims 

 penny how a shilling is coined : As for the! dominion over: the left eye of a man, and 

 college of physicians, they are too stately to ; the right eye of a woman, are privileges of 

 college or too proud to continue. They I the Moon, Wormwood, an herb of Mars 

 ^ay a mouse is under the dominion of the | cures both; what belongs to the Sun by 

 Moon, and that is the reason they feed in the i sympathy, because he is exalted in his 

 night; the house of the Moon is Cancer ; 1 house ; but what belongs to the Moon by 

 rats are of the same nature with mice, butt antipathy, because he hath his fall in her's. 

 they are a little bigger; Mars receives his {Suppose a man be bitten or stung by a 

 fall in Cancer, ergo, Wormwood being an I martial creature, imagine a wasp, a hornet. 



