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may not be overcome, and though it despise fire and iron, 
yet it is broke with new hot blood [of a he-goat (Bartholo- 
mew)|. This stone is contrary to Magnes. For if an 
Adamas be set by iron, it suffereth not the iron come to 
the Magnes, but it draweth it by a manner of violence 
from the Magnes, so that though the Magnes draweth iron 
to itself, the Adamas draweth it away from the Magnes. It 
is said that this stone warneth of venom as Electrum doth; 
and -putteth off divers dreads and fears, and withstandeth 
witchcraft. Dioscorides saith that it is called a precious 
stone of reconciliation and of love. For if a woman be 
away from her husband, or trespasseth against him: by-virtue 
of this stone she is the sooner reconciled to have grace of 
her husband. And hereto he saith, that if a very Adamas 
be privily laid under a woman’s head that sleepeth: her hus- 
band may wit whether that she be chaste or no. For if 
she be chaste by virtue of that stone she is compelled in 
her sleep to beclip [embrace] her husband; and if she be 
untrue, she leapeth from him out of the bed, as one that 
is unworthy to abide the presence of that stone. Also, as 
Dioscorides saith, the virtue of such a stone borne in the 
left shoulder, or in the left arm-pit, helpeth against enemies, 
against woodness, chiding, and strife, and against fiends that 
noy [annoy] men that dream in their. sleep, against fantasy, 
against swevens [dreams] and venom. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 9. 
THERE is nowadays a kind of Adamant which draweth 
unto it flesh, and the same so strongly, that it hath power 
to knit and tie together two mouths of contrary persons, 
and draw the heart of a man out of his body without 
offending any part of him. 
Edward Fenton's “Certaine Secrete Wonders of 
Nature” (apud Steevens). 
Of the Magnet Bartholomew says : 
Maenes is a stone of Ind, coloured somewhat as iron. 
And is found in Ind among the Troglodytes, and draweth 
to itself iron in such wise, that it maketh as it were a chain 
of iron rings. Also it is said, that it draweth glass molten 
as it doth iron. In certain temples is made an image of 
jron, and it seemeth that that image hangeth in the air. 
