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to drinke,of an Eglantine or wild Rofe(called Cymorrhodon)which the day before fhehadielpis_ G 
Par Luficania. ed growing in an Hortyard,where fhe tooke pleafure to behold it. This eccurrent fell autin*La- 
- cetania,the neareft part untous of Spaine. Now, as God would, when the fouldiour beforefaid 
upon his hurt received by the dog, was readie to fall into thatfymptomeof Hydrophobie; and 
began to feare water ; there camea letter from his mother, advertifinig him to obey the will of 
God, and to doe according tothat which was revealed unto her by the vifion. Wherenpon hee 
dranke the root of the faid {weer brier or Eglantine,and not only recovered bimfelfe be ond all 
mens expectation ; but alfo afterwards as many asin thatcafe tooke the like receit, found. the 
fameremedie.Before this time,the writers in Phyficke knew of no medicinable vertueintheBg- 
Jantine, but onely of the fponge or little ball,growing amid the prickie braunches therof,which 
being burnt and reduced into afhes, and incorporat with honey into a liniment,makerhhatreto 
come again where it was {hed by any infirmiue.But{ceing] am fallen intathe mention‘of Spain, 
it commeth to my mind,what ] my felfe knewand {aw in the fame province, within the landsand 
domaiges belonging to an hoft of mine ; namely, a cercaine plant or hearbe there lately) found, 
sate common called * Dracunculus,which carried a maine {tem or ftalkean inch or thumbe thicke, befet with 
B00" fpots of fundrie colours, refembling thofe of vipers and ferpents : and | wastold,that it was afin- 
gular remedic againft the fting or biting of any ferpents, This Dracunculus differeth from\ano- 
ther hearbe of that name,whereof I{pake in the book going next before, for this hatha diftine 
forme from that,and befides,another ftrange & wonderfull propertie, namely, to fhew two foot 
or thereabout above ground in the Spring time, when ferpents firft doe caft their floughes. or 
skins: and the fameisno more feene, at the very time thar ferpents alforetire intotheirholes 
and take up theit VVinter harbour withinthe ground. Let this plant bee goneonceinto the 
earth and hidden, you fhall notfee a {nake,adder,or any other ferpent ftirring abroad. VWWherby 
we may fee whatakind and tender mother Nature is unto us(if there were nothing elstoteflifie 
her love)in giving us warning beforehand of daunger :and pointing unto usthe very,ume when 
we are to be afraid andto take heed of ferpents. . 
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eG Of acertaine venomous fountaine in Germanic : of the hearbe Britannica. What 
difeafes they be that put mento the greateft paine. ; 
O unfortunate is ourcondition, and fo much expofed are wee to manifold calamities, that 
¢ ptheearth is not peftered with wicked beafts onely forte doe usharme: butalfo there bee o- 
therwhiles venomous waters and peftilent tracts to worke us more woe and miferie, In that 
voiage or expedition which prince Cefar Germanicus made into Germanie, after hee hadpafled 
over the river Rhene,and had given order toadvance forward with his armie, he encamped up- 
on the feacoafts along Frifeland, where there was to be found but one {pring of freth watersand 
thefame fo daungerous,that whofoever drunke of that water,within two years loftall their teeth, 
and were befides {o feeble and loofe jointed in their knees, that unneth they were able toftand. 
xSome thinke = hele difeafes the Phyficians tearmed *Stomacace and Sceletyrbe:as one would fay,the mala- 
this difeafe to die of the mouth, and palfie of the legs, Yct they found aremedie for thefe infirmities,and that 
oe em was a certain hearbe called *Briitannica which is very medicinable,not only for the accidents of 
bute,which the finewes and mouth,but alfo for the Squinancie and ftinging of ferpents. It hath leaves grow- 
ce yet ing fomewhat long, and thofe enclining toa brownithor darke greene colour, and the root is 
Which ista- Dlacke; out of which,as alfo from the leaves, there is a juice drawne and prefled. The flowers by a 
ken tobe our peculiar name be called Vibones : which being gathered before any thunder bee heard, and fo 
ee eaten,doe affure and fecure the parties altogether from that infirmutie. The Frifians,neare unto 
commonly Whom welay encamped,fhewed our men this hearb.But I mufe much & wonder what fhould be 
calledScorbut- the reafon of that nane,unleffe the Frifians bordring upon the narrowrace of the Ocean,whieh 
aul lieth onely between them and England(calledin thofe daies Brittanica)(hould therupon forthe 
neighbourhead & propinquitie of that Ifland, give it the name Britannica. For certain it is,that 
it took not that name becaufe there grew {uch plentie thereof in that country of England,thatit 
fhould be tranfported over from thence to our camp;for as yetthat Iand wasnotwholly {ubje& 
untous & reduced under the Roman fignorie.For an ordinary thing itwas in old time praGifed 
by thofe that found out any hearbs,to afte & the adoption(asit were)ofthe fame,andtocalkthem 
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