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a scorpion, Wormwood, an herb of Mars, j either linen or woolen draper) yet as brave as 

 gives you a present cure ; that Mars, cho- j they looked, my opinion was that the moths 

 leric as he is, hath learned that patience, to : might consume them ; moths are under the 

 pass by your evil speeches of him, and tells j dominion of Mars; this herb Wormwood be- 

 you by my pen, That he gives you no af-iing laid among cloaths, will make a moth 

 fliction, but he gives you a cure ; you need ; scorn to meddle with the cloalhs, as much 

 not run to Apollo, nor ./Esculapius ; and if : as a lion scorns to meddle with a mouse, or 



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he was so choleric as you make him to be, 

 he would have drawn his sword for anger, 

 to see the ill conditions of these people 

 that can spy his vices, and not his virtues. 

 The eternal God, when he made Mars, 



an eagle with a fly. You say Mars is an- 

 gry, and it is true enough he is angry with 

 many countrymen, for being such fools to 

 be led by the noses by the college of phy- 

 sicians, as they lead bears to Paris garden. 



made him for public good, and the sons of; Melancholy men cannot endure to be 

 men shall know it it in the latter end of the \ wronged in point of good fame, and that 

 world. Et caelum Mars solus babet. You \ dolh sorely trouble old Saturn, because they 

 say Mars is a destroyer ; mix a little Worm- j call him the greatest infortunate ; in the 

 wood, an herb of Mars, with your ink, I body of man he rules the spleen, (and that 

 neither rats nor mice touch the paper writ- \ makes covetous man so splenetic) the poor 

 ten with it, and then Mars is a preserver. j old man lies crying out of his left side 

 Astrologers think Mars causes scabs and : Father Saturn's angry, Mars comes to him ; 

 itch, and the virgins are angry with him, | Come, brother, I confess thou art evil spoken 

 because wanton Venus told them he de- j of, and so am I ; thou knowest I have my 

 forms their skins ; but, quoth Mars, my j exaltation in thy house, I give him an herb 

 only desire is, they should know themselves; \ of mine, Wormwood, to cure the old man : 

 my herb Wormwood will restore them to | Saturn consented, but spoke little, and so 

 the beauty they formerly had, and in that {Mars cured him by sympathy. When 

 I will not come an inch behind my opposite, \ Mars was free from war, (for he loves to be 

 Venus: for which doth the greatest evil, he \ fighting, and is the best friend a soldier 

 that takes away an innate beauty, and when! hath) I say, when Mars was free from war, 

 he has done, knows how to restore it again ? | he called a council of war in his own brain, 

 or she that teaches a company of wanton j to know how he should do poor sinful man 

 lasses to paint their faces? If Mars be in [good, desiring to forget his abuses in being 

 a Virgin, in the nativity, they say he causes \ called an infortunate. He musters up his 

 the cholic (it is Avell God hath set some! own forces, and places them in battalia, 

 body to pull down the pride of man.) HejOh! quoth he, why do I hurt a poor 

 in the Virgin troubles none with the cholic, i silly man or woman ? His angel answer.* 

 but them that know not themselves (for who I him, It is because they have offended theii 

 knows himself, may easily know all the 5 God, (Look back to Adam:) Well, says 

 world.) Wormwood, an herb of Mars, is a { Mars, though they speak evil of me, I will 

 present cure for it ; and whether it be most | do good to them ; Death's cold, my herb 



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like a Christian to love him for his good, or; 

 hate him for his evil, judge ye. I had al- 

 most forgotten, that charity thinks no evil. 



shall heat them : they are full of ill humours 

 (else they would never have spoken ill of 

 me ;) my herb shall cleanse them, and dry 



robe, and there wasagreat many fine clothes: j herb shall strengthen them ; they are dull 

 I can give them no other title, for I was never \ witted, my herb shall fortify their appro- 



