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the legges or shinnes, when a plaister is made thereof 

 with bole armoricke. Also the ulcers of the feet, 

 mingled with allome. It is soveraigne against the fall- 

 ing of the haire, compounded with wilde roses. The 

 Spaniards burne the braines of beares, when they die in 

 any publicke sports, holding them venemous ; because, 

 being drunke, they drive a man to be as mad as a 

 beare ; and the like is reported of the heart of a Lyon, 

 and the braine of a Cat. The right eie of a beare dried to 

 pouder, and hung about children's neckes in a little bag, 

 driveth away the terrour of dreames, and both the eyes 

 whole, bound to a man's left arme, easeth a quartan ague. 

 " The liver of a sow, a lamb, and a bear put togither, 

 and trod to pouder under one's shoos, easeth and 

 defendeth cripples from inflamation : the gall being pre- 

 served and warmed in water, delivereth the bodie from 

 Colde, when all other medicine faileth. Some give it, 

 mixt with Water, to them that are bitten with a mad 

 Dogge, holding it for a singular remedie, if the party 

 can fast three daies before. It is also given against the 

 palsie, the king's evill, the falling sickenesse, an old cough, 

 the inflamation of the eies, the running of the eares, de- 

 levery in child birth, the Haemorrhods, the weaknes of 

 the backe, and the palsie : and that women may go their 

 full time, they make arnmulets of Bear's nails, and cause 

 them to weare them all the time they are with Child." 



THE Fox. 



By Englishmen, the Fox has been raised to the height 

 of at least a demigod and his cult is a serious matter 

 attended with great minutiae of ritual. Englishmen 

 and Foxes cannot live together, but they live for one 

 another, the man to hunt the fox, the fox to be hunted. 



