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place they ordaine, that when the Sun isinGemini, the combs, the ears,thenailes,and clawes of 
cocks {hould be burned, and the afhes thereof tempered with oile; wherewith thefickeqerfons: 
are to be annointed all over: but ifthe moone'do pafle through the faid figne, the famecure (fay’ 
they) isto be done with the afhes that come‘of their barbs and {purs:whiles either Sun or Moon, 
bein Virgo, the cure doth alter,and is to be wrought with bartly cormsin the fame manierinfeds 
But how ifeither of thefe two planetsbe in Sagittarius 2thenthe wingsofa Batt muft ferve the 
turne. In cafe the moone be entred into Leo, they employ the leavesand braunchesoftheTa- 
mariske ; mary itmuft be the tame and garden Tamariske itvany cafe. Laftly,if fhe bein: Aqua 
rius, they prefcribe the coles made of box-wood, punnedand pulverized Certes, I purpofenor 
to run through all their Receits: fuch onely as are found and approoved goodsor at Jeaftwaies 
carrie fome {hew and probabilitie therof,I amicontentto ferdowne: as namely, when they give 
order for {trong odours and perfumes to be applied unto patients lying of alethargie; forto a- 
waken and raife them out of their dead{leepe: among which peradventure,the {tones of a wea- 
zill dried and long kept, or their liver burnt,may do fome good. And whereasthey thinkeitcon= 
venientto apply hot unto their heads all about, the lungs of a mutton, they{peake not alrogi- 
ther befides fenfe and reafon, | 
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As for quartane agues, forafmuch asit is often feene, thatall the phyficke that isuledabour 
them doth little good ornone atall, be a phyfician never fo Methodicall,Rationall, & Diligent, 
yea though he vifitfuch patients ordinarily, and bee prefent with them by their bed fides :in that 
regard I will not fticke to relate many of their medecines and receits forthis difeafe; beginning 
fir{t with thofé that are locall, and outwardly to bee applied, hanged, orworneabouranypartof - 
the bodie, Jmprimis, they fay, thatthe duft or fand wherein any hawke or bird of prey hath baf- 
ked or bathed her felfe, is fingular good forthe quartane ague, ifthe patient, weare it in a linnen 
cloth ued with a red thread. /tem,the longeft tooth in the head of a cole-blackedog,is very pro- 
per for this purpofe. There isa kind of baftard wefps, which the Greeks thereupon call Pleudo- 
{pheces, and ordinarily they doe fliealone, and not in troups as others doe ; which, ifthey bee 
caughe with the left hand,and hanged about the necke under the chin, docnre quartans,asfome 
magicians fay: howbeic, others attribute this effet to oneof thefe wefps, which a man faw firft 
the fame yeare. Cut the head of a viper off, or take out the heart alive, and wrap the one or the 
other within a little linnen rag,and carrie it about you, the quartan ague will bee goneanon, by 
» theirfaying, Some of them take onely the little prettiefnouts end ofamoufe, orthe very tips of 
the ears, and enjoyne the patient to lap the fame in a red carnation coloured cloth,and fo to ca- 
ri¢ itabout him ; butthen the moufe muft in any cafe bee let goe againe and norkilled . Ochers 
plucke out therighteye ofa green lizard alive; which done,within a while after they chop off the 
head : then they enfold them both in a peece of goats skin, & give the patient in charge tohave 
the fame about him. And many there be, who by the dire@tion of magicians carrie about them 
in like manner forthe fame purpofe, one of thefe flies or beetles that ufe to roll up little balls of 
earth : aid in very truth, in regard of this kind of beetle, the greater part of Aigypt honourall 
beetles,and adore them as gods, or at leaftwife having fome divine powerin them : which cere- 
moniall devotion of theirs, 4ppéon giveth a fubtill and curious reafon of tor he doth collect,that 
*Haply,be- there is fome refemblance between the * operations and works of the Sun,and this flie: and this 
eaule allthefe he fetteth abroad, for to colour andexcufe the fuperftitious rites of his countreymen . Howbeit 
beetils ecoti- the magicians employ in the cure of a quartan ague, another kind of them * which hath little . 
ted of themale : ; i : 
fex, & none of hornszurning backward, but they muft be gotten likewife with the left hand, orels they will doe 
ae pee no good, As for the third fort, {potted with white,and called in Latin by the name of Fullo,they 
tor é lit. en . . : . . 
tle roundlés of APPoint one of them to be flit through in twaine,and the twopecces to be tiedto both armes of 
cath there — the patient; whereas thofe of other kinds, they bind to the leftarmeonely. Semblably theyfay; 
oe that che heart of a fnake taken out of her bodie alive with the left hand,cureth the quartan, ifthe 
tobcin che patient carrie itabout him: asalfo, that whofoever taketh foure of the knots or joynts of a {cor- 
aaa pionstaile,togither with the fting, and carrieth the fame about him enwrapped within a peece 
Is Destie - ~ : . 5 Y 7 ° ° 
hecalledbe. Of black cloth,with this charge, That for three daies {pace he do not {ee eitherthe fcorpion which 
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fore Taarue, wastetgoejnor the partie who tied the faid cloth and that which is within itabout him,hefhalbe _ 
pul delivered from the quartan ague:bur after thereturne of the third fit,the patient muft hide this 
clout atid the joyntsaforelaid,and buriethem in theground. Sometherebewho lap a caterpil- 
let itt a little peéce of linnen cloth, and bind the fame thrice abourwith lianen thread, making 
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