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out his ftones,and fo let him goe againe,hee will make all other rats to runaway, Mekeamafhot G 
drench of a fnakes skin, falt, red wheat called Far,with fome wild running thyme, ftampedall to- 
gither,in one and the fame daysput all into wine and convey the fame into the throat of acow or 
ox, about the time that grapes begin to ripen upon the vine, the faid beafts will ftandto health 
fora whole yeere after: or give them young {wallows,and caufe them to let the fame downe theit 
bodie in fome paft or bread at three feverall times . Gather the duft togither out of the place. 
where you fee thar a {nake hath gone and madea traét, fling the fame upon afwarm of bees,they 
fhall returne againe to their hive. Tieup the right ftone orcullion of aram,he fhall get none but 
ram-lambs. And looke whofoeverhave about them the ftrings or finewes taken from the wings 
and leggs of acrane, they fhall not betired andfaint in any labour that they take. Ifyou would _ 
have mulesnot towinfe and fling out with their heels, give them wine to drinke, Laft of all, I i 
cannot overpaffe one notable and memorable example as touching the houfe of a mule: when 
Antipater fhould fend the venemous water of the fountaine Styx forto poifonking Alexander 
the Great,hee could meet with no matter that would hold this poifon,without piercing andrun- =. 
ning through it, but onely the houfe of a mule: and tothe knowledge hereof he came,by thedi- 
_ re€tion of 47i/fotle the philofopher, who devifed acup to be made thereof. A foule ftaine and 
blot of 4riffotles name, for beeing privieto {uch vilanie, and fetiing 1 forward as hee did. Thus 
much of Land-creatures :it remaineth now to returne againe to thofe of the Waters, andtheir ° 
vertues in phyficke. ; Bi 
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eS The medicinablevertues of creatures living in water.T he admirable Ro 
: nature of waters. 
z Owfolloweth the difcourfe of water-beafts, and how beneficiall they be — 
unto us in regard of phyficke: wherein verely dame Nature (the mother 
and workemiftreffe of all things) fheweth how litideidle fheis, not cea- 
fing even there alfo by her continuall operations tomake knowne her 
wonderfull power, among the waves and {urging billows,amid the reci- 
Va , procall tides of the fea,ebbing and flowing in their aleernativeturnssyea 
SEA and inthefwift courfe and ftreames of greatrivers. And verely, tofaya 
truth and {peake asitis, there is no partof theworldwhereinthe might 
and majeftie of Nature more appeareth,than in the waters:for this one Element feemeth to M 
tule and commaund all the reft. Waters devoure and {wallow up the earth :waters quench and 
kill the fames of fire: they mount up aloft into the aire, and feeme tochallengea feignorie and — 
dominion in the heavens al{o; whiles bya thick feeling and floore asit were of clowds, caufedby 
the dim vapours arifing ftom them, that vitall {pirit which giveth life unto all things, is — 
: 3 - ftopped, 
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