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Ind at the mouth of the box any while, by virtue thereof 
the attercop is overcome and dieth, as it were suddenly. 
And this same I have seen proved oft in many and diverse 
places. And they that use nigromancy mean that they have 
answer of god more thereby than by other precious stones. 
Also witches love well this stone, for they ween that they 
may work certain wonders by virtue of this stone. This 
stone bringeth men out of prison bonds, and undoeth gates 
and bonds that it toucheth. The Sapphire loveth chastity, 
and therefore lest the effect thereof be let in any wise by 
his uncleanness that him beareth, it needeth him that beareth 
it to live chaste. Also this stone doth away envy, and 
putteth off dread and fear, and maketh a man bold and 
hardy, and master and victor, and maketh the heart stead- 
fast in goodness, and maketh meek and mild and goodly. 
Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 87. 
Savory. 
Winrer’s Tate, iv. 4, 104. 
SumMMER Savory maketh thin, and is boiled and eaten 
with beans, pease, and other windy pulses, 
Gerard’s “ Herbal,” s.v. 
Scorpion. 
Macsety, iii. 2, 36, 
A Scorpion is a land worm with a crooked sting in 
the tail, and it stingeth with the tail, and sheddeth venom 
in the crooked wound. And it is his property that he 
smiteth never, nor hurteth never the palm of the hand. 
And they bring forth small worms shapen as eggs, and 
breedeth fervent and right pestilential venom as serpents do. 
And the venom of Scorpions noyeth and grieveth three — 
days full sore, and afterward slayeth with soft death, but 
it be holpen and succoured the sooner. And the Scorpion 
smiteth maidens with death’s stroke, when he smiteth and 
stingeth them, and women also, but he smiteth not men 
so soon; and grieveth most and noyeth in the morrow- 
tide, when they come out of their dens. The Scorpion’s 
tail is alway ready to smite and sting; and he stingeth 
and smiteth aslant, and sheddeth in the smiting white 
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