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Topaz. 
[Sir Topas, the curate’s name in “Twelfth Night * (iv. 2) 
may be derived from this stone.] 
Topaz was first found in an island of Arabia, in which 
island when the’ Troglodytes were diseased with hunger and 
tempest, they digged up roots of herbs, and they found this 
stone therewith. And if thou wipe this stone, thou darkest 
it, and if thou leavest him to his own kind,’ he is the more 
clear. And in treasury of kings nothing is more clear nor 
more precious than this precious stone, for clearness thereof 
taketh to himself the clearness of other precious stones that 
be about him, and he followeth the course of the moon, 
and as the moon is more full or less, so his effect is more 
or less, and helpeth against the passion lunatic [perhaps this 
is the reason of the curate’s name in Twelfth Night, iv. 2], 
and stauncheth blood, and suageth fervent water, and 
suffereth it not to boil. It suageth both wrath and sorrow, 
and helpeth against evil thoughts and frenzy, and against 
sudden death. Bartholomew (Berthelet), bk. xvi. § 96. 
Ir you wish that boiling water should overflow as soon 
as the hand is dipped into it, take the stone which is called 
Topaz ; for it has been proved in our time that if the 
stone be placed in boiling water, it makes it flow away, so 
that.if the hand be dipped into it, the stone may be 
drawn out at once—and this: Parisius one of our brethren 
performed. Albertus Magnus, “ Of the Virtues of Stones.” 
Ir the whites of many hens’ eggs be taken, after a month 
they become glass, and hard as stone; and from this, first 
rubbed with saffron or red earth, the false Topaz is made. 
Ibid., “Of the Wonders of the World.” 
Trout, 
TwetrrH Nicut, ii. 5, 25. 
Tus fish of nature loveth flattery ; for, being in the 
water, it will suffer itself to be rubbed and clawed, and so 
