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be natural) to difcover and fhew any poifon: for, be there poifon in a cup ofthis mettall,aman G_ 
fhall fee therein certaine femicircles refembling rainbows,& perceive befides the liquor tokeep 
a hifling 8¢ {parkling noife as the fire doth ; which two figns, do certainly give warning of peifon, 
Astouching ftatues of gold: itis {aid, thatthe firft image that ever was knowne to bee folid 
and maffie,was that of the goddefle Diana furnamed 47414, which ttood within a temple de- 
dicated unto her, which in my Coftnographie I have fignified under that name ; and this was be- 
fore any brafen ftatue of that making. This temple ia thofe parts was accounted in regard of the 
divine power of this goddeffe,moft holy and facred;and {uch akind of Image they call Holo- 
{phyraton, Howbeit,as religious as the church was, Aatonve in his voyage into Parthia, {poiled 
it, and carried away the faid image. And here I cannot forgetto put downe aprettie fpeech, 
which(by report)an old gentleman and fouldiorof Bononic deliveredto Auguftus Cefaratwhat fy 
-»  timeashe was entertained as a gueft and fupped with the faid Emperour at his owne table: for 
being demaunded by 4g/tus,whether itwas true,thacthe man who firft violated this goddefle, _ 
died blind, lame, and bereaved of all his lims ? he anfwered; Yea fir, chatit is3 and that me thinks 
* For Augs- you {houldknowbett, for even nowaleg of his you have at fupper, and * all your wealthbefides 
fhus Cefav de- = . 
feited Anvonie, 8 come unto youby thatfaccage, _ ive : it. 
&wasmight- ‘The firft tan that* caufed his owne ftatue to be made of gold, and the fame folid and rnaffie, 
ly entiched by was Gorgias Leontinus the great Orator and Rhetorician,which(toimmortalize hisownname)- 
the {poile of A : : : 
kim. he {ec up inthe temple at Delphos; andthis was about the 70 Olympias: whereby wee may fee , 
* And yeto- what wealth and gain was gotten in thefe daies by teaching Oratorie and the Art of Rhetoricke. it 
ar But to come at length unto the medicinable verives of gold: certes, divers waies eflectuallic © 
Gieeceeree- isin the cure of many difeales: for firft ofall,foveraigne itis for greene wounds, if it be outwardly 
ees applied: and if young children weare it about them,lefle harme thall they have by any forcerie, 
witball. witchcraft, or enchantments, thatbe brought intothe houfe, or practifed where they are: how- 
beit, gold it felfe if it be carried over one,is thoughtro bee mifchievous and hurtfull:for in that 
fort it doth harme alfo co hens that couve and fir, or ewes that are great with lambe and readie to 
yeane. Bug what is the remedie to prevent this mifchiefe ? marry take the fame gold that isthus 
brought in place to doe a fhrewd turn,wath it well, and with that water befprinkle them that you 
would cure. Moreover, gold may bee torrified once with corns of falt taken to the triple weight 
thereof; anda fecond time with two parts of falt, and one of the {tone whichthey call Schiftis: | 
by this manner of preparing,all the venomous and hurefull qualitie that is therein, itdoth anf. & 
fufeinro the other things that be calcined or burnt therewith (which muft be done upon anear- 
then veflell) and it felfe continueth pure and incorrupt ftill. Now che reft of the ashes feparated 
from the gold, faved in an earthen pot, and incorporat with water into the forme of aliniment, _ 
healeth the foule tettar that appearech in the face : itcureth the fame difeafe alfo, if the facebee 
rubbed with the faid afhes and beane foure togither, but then it muft be afterwards wathed off. 
Thete athes thus prepared, cure the hollow ulcerscalled filtuloes,and alfo the hemorrhoids:but — 
* ninipama, incafe you puttherto the*foure of falnitre,it healeth corrupt & putrified ulcers,and fuch as ftink 
oc Aphromitit, ayaine: the {ame being boiled in hony with Nigella Romana, doth gently loofe the belly, if the 
+ Saltpetres  navell be anointed therwith. To conclude, i.Varro faith,that gold will caufe wertsto fall off, \ 
s 
Cuap. Vv. is 
2& Of Borras,and the fix medicinable properties that it hath: the wonderfull nature 
thereof tn fodring one mettall with another and in bringing all met: 
tals to their perfection. 
Hryfocolla, called otherwife B orax, or greene earth, is found inthofe pits and mines that ” 
are digged for gold:anda humor itis atthe firft, runnning along the veine of gold,which _ 
~~ asitthickneth and groweth muddie, congealeth at length by the extreame cold of winter 
to the hardneffe of a pumifh ftone. Howbeit, the beftkind of Borax we have knowne by expert- 
ence to be engendred in mines of brafle;and the next to it for goudnefle,in thofe of filver:other- Mg 
whiles alfo men meet withall in leaden mines,burthe fame isnotfo good asthatwhichthe gold 
mines doyeeld.Moreover,there may be atrartificiall Borras made in all the faid mettall mines, 
but far inferior to that which is naturallsnamely,by letting water gently to run amoug their veins 
all winter long untill the month of lune: the which water,in lune and Luly wall growto be cry and 
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