The feven andthirtieth Booke 
in the mouith,they quench and allay thirft. The Phrygian Agates have nopart of green in them. G 
Thofe that bee found about Thebes in Agypt, are without red and white veines: howbeit,thele 
allo be effectual againft {corpions, Of the fame credite lixewile are the Cyprian Agares. Some 
hold opinion, Thar the fingular grace and commendation in an Agate, is to bee cleare and tran- 
fparent like plaffe. There be found of them in Thrace,and about the mountaine Oeta,inthe hill. 
Pernaflus,in Lesbos andMetfene, and fuch have flowers in them imprinted, like tothofe whieh 
grow by the high waies and paths in the fields : alfo in the Ifle of Rhodes. But the Magicians ob- 
ferve diverfe other forts; and as for thofe that bee like untoa Lions skin, they have the name to 
be powerfull againft {corpions. InPerfia they are perfuaded, That a perfume of fuch Agathes, 
curneth away tempefts and all extraordinarie impreffions of the aire, as alfo ftaieth the violent 
ftreame and rage of rivers. Butto know which be proper for this purpofe, they uferocaftihem fy 
into a cauldron of feething water: for if they coole the fame, it is an argument that they bee | 
tight. Butto be fure chat they may doe good, they muftbeworne tied by the haires of a Lions 
mane: for astouching thofe Agates which feeme to have the print of an Hyznes skin, the Ma- 
gicians cannot abide them,as caufing difcord ina houfe.But they hold, Tharthe Agathof one 
fimple colour,caufeth thofe wreftlersto bee invinciblewho have it about them. And aproofe 
hereof they take by feezhing it ina pot full of oyle,with diverfe painters colours, forwithin one 
two houres after thar it hath fivered and boiled therein, it will bring them allto one entire co- 
Jour of Vermillion. Thusmuch of Achates or the Agath. The {tone which isnamed Acepis, 
refembleth fal-nitre: hollow it is and light in manner of the pumith ftone, howbeit, {potted with 
golden {pots or drops in manner of ftarres. Seeth this gently in oyle,and therewith annointthe J 
bodie, it riddeth away all wearineffe and laffitudes, if we may beleevethe Magicians. The ftcne 
Alabaftrites is found abour Alabaftrum,a citie in Egypt,and Damafco in Syria,white of colour 
itis,and entermeddled with {undrie colours. This being calcined with Sal gem and reduced in- 
to pouder, is faid to correcta ftinking breath and ftrong favour of the teeth. In the geffers of 
Cockes there bee found certaine ftones, called thereupon Alectone, which in fhewrefemble 
Cryftall aid be as big as Beanes: i/o that great wreftler of Crotone,ufed to carie thisftone a- 
bout him, whereby he was invincible in all the feats of ftrength or activitie that he tried, as Ma- 
gicians would feeme toperfuade us. Androdamas isaftoneof a bright colour like filver, and 
in manner of a Diamant,fquare,and alwaies growing in atable lozenge-wife, The Magicians 
fuppofe, Thatit tooke that name for repreffing the anger'and furious violence of men, Astou- K 
ching Argyrodamas,whether it be the fame,or another ftone, authours have not refolved, An- 
tipathes is 2 ftone all blacke, and nothing ar all tran{parent. You fhall find whether itbeea true 
{tone or no, by feething it in milke, fornofooner is it putin, but itcaufeth the milke to looke 
like Myrche. The Magicians would have ustothinke, Thatitis good againft witch-craft, and 
eye biting efpecially, Arabica is paffing like untoyvorie: and for yvorie mightit goe, but that 
it is fo hard, which bewraieth ittobea ftone, It is thought, that as many as have it about them, 
thall find eafe of the paine of finewes. The ftone Aromatites is thoughtprincipally to grow ini 
Arabia,and yet iris found in Zgyptabout Pyre : but wherefoever itis to be had, a {tone hard it 
is ,in colour and finell both refembling Myrrhe:in which regard,muchufeditisof queenesand _ 
great ladies, Asbeftos is engendered within the mountaines of Arcadiajandis of anyrongrey 
colour. As for Afpilate, Democrszu: faith, That it is bred in Arabia,and of a firie colour :which 
by his faying ough to be tied with cammels haire and fo hung faft aboutthem that bee troubled 
with the {chirrhofities of the fpleene,alfo (if he fay true) itis foundin the neaft of certaine Ara- 
bian birds. Another likewife of that nanie groweth there in the cape Leucopetra,butitis of afil- 
ver colour,and glictereth withall : excellent to be worne abontone againft the fantafticall feares 
and imaginations in the night feafon. The fame Democriius faith, That in Perfis, India, andthe 
~ mountaine Ida, there is aftone found, named Atizoé, gliftcring bright as filver;three fingers 
thicke, formed in manner of a Lentil, and of a pleafantand dele@table favour: The Sages of 
Peifia never goe about the election and ordering of a king; butthey thinke itneceflarierohave [4 
it about them. As for Augites, manybee'of opinion, That it is no other ftone than Callais, ~ 
athe Turquoife. Amphitane is a ftone, knowne by another name alfo, Chryfocolla: found 
it is in chat part of india whete the Pifmires-Volantde rake out goldwhere it refemibleth gold; 
andis in fafhion fourefquare. It isreported conftantly, That jrhath thefame force naturally that 
the Load{tone hath, butthatit draweth gold coitas well as fiver Aphrodifiace is partly se ; 
an 
