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hen&ions; and yet among astrologers all 

 this does not deserve a good word : Oh the 

 patience of Mars! 



Felix qvipotuit rcrum cognoscere caucus, 

 tuque domus snjierum scandere curafacit. 

 O happy lie that can the knowledge gain, 

 To know the eternal God made nought in vain. 

 To this 1 add, 



night, the one from Aries, and the olhei 

 from Scorpio ; give me thy leave by sym- 

 pathy to cure this poor man with drinking 

 a draught of Wormwood beer every morn- 

 ing. The Moon was weak the other day, 

 and she gave a man two terrible mischiefs, 

 a dull brain and a weak sight; Mars laid 

 by his sword, and comes to her; Sister 



[ know the reason canseth such a dearth | Moon, said he, this man hath angered thee, 



Of knowledge: 'tis because men love theearth. ; but I beseech thee take notice he is but a 



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The other day Mars told me he met with \ wormwood cure him of both infirmities by 

 Venus, and he asked her, What was the ; antipathy, for thou knowest thou and I can- 

 reason that she accused him for abusing \ not agree ; with that the ' Moon began to 

 women ? He never gave them the pox. In \ quarrel; Mars (not delighting much in 

 il\e dispute they fell out, and in anger \ women's tongues) went away, and did it 

 parted, and Mars told me that his brother I whether she would or no. 



Saturn told him, that an antivenerean 

 medicine was the best against the pox. 



He that reads this, and understands what 

 he reads, hath a jewel of mre worth than 



Once a month he meets with the Moon. ; a diamond ; he that understands it not, is 

 Mars is quick enough of speech, and the j as little fit to give physick. There lies a 

 Moon not much behind hand, (neither are \ key in these words which will unlock, (if it 

 most women.) The Moon looks much i be turned by a wise hand) the cabinet of 

 after children, and children are much trou- j physick : I have delivered it as plain as I 

 bled with the worms; she desired a medi- \ durst ; it is not only upon Wormwood as 

 cine of him, he bid her take his own herb, j I wrote, but upon all plants, trees, and 

 Wormwood. He had no sooner parted j herbs ; he that understands it not, is unfit 

 with the Moon, but he met with Venus, and j (in my opinion) to give physic. This shall 

 she was as drunk as a hog; Alas! poor! live when I am dead. And thus I leave it 

 Venus, quoth he; What! thou a fortune, * to the world, not caring a farthing whether 

 and be drunk? I'll give thee antipathetical! they like it or dislike if. The grave equals 

 cure; Take my herb Wormwood, and thou jail men, and therefore shall equal me with 

 shall never get a surfeit by drinking. A jail princes; until which time the eternal 

 poor silly countryman hath got an ague, { Providence is over me : Then the ill tongue 

 and cannot go about his business: he j of a prating fellow, or one that hath more 

 wishes he had it not, and so do I ; but 1 j tongue than wit, or more proud than 

 will tell him a remedy, whereby he shall ; honest, shall never trouble me. Wisdom is 

 prevent it; Take the herb of Mars, Worm- \justJfied by her children. And so much for 

 wood, and if infortunes will do good, what! Wormwood, 

 will fortunes do? Some think the lungs are,* 



1 , - c ., ., e .1 J VARUOW, CALLED NOSE-BLEED, MILFOIL 



under Jupiter; and ir the lungs then the! 



i ,i i AND THOUSALD-LEAL. 



breath ; and though sometimes a man gets ; 



a slinking brealh, and yet Jupiter is a for-! Descript.'] IT hath many long leaves 

 tune, forsooth; up comes Mars to him ;t spread upon the ground, finely cu(, and 

 Gume brother Jupiter, thou knowest I sent \ divided into many small parts 1 It flowers 

 thee H couple of trines to thv house last J are white, but not all of a whiteness aud 



