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The fecond Booke of 



rifcthjlooking wiftly upon itjand teftifieth after a fort by fneefingja kind of worfhip* As for dogs^ Q 

 no man doubtcth verily, but all the time of the canicular daics they are moft readie to run mad. 



Chap. XLI. 



^ Thai: the Jfarres have their fever. til mfl^tences in fandrie parts of the fgf^es^ 

 And At divers times k 



13 lo 



forRudi 

 Wert wort: 

 others for 



Oreover, the parts of ccrtaine figncs, have their peculiar force > as appe$-» 

 rethinthe cquinodiall of Autumne, and in mid winter ; at what time wee 

 perceive, that the Sunnemakethterapelb . And this is proovedj notoneiy 

 byrainesand ftormes, but by many experiments in mens bodies^ and ac- H 

 ) cidents to plants in the countrey . For (bmc men are ftrUcken by the Planet, 

 Ji andblafted; others are troubled and difeafedatcertaine times ordinatily, in 

 their bclliejfinews^head^and mind.The Olive trce^the A(pe or white Poplar^and Willows^ iun» 

 or wryth their leaves aboutat Midfummer,when the Sun enireth Cancer. Asid contrariwife^in 

 very Mid-winter^when he entreth Capricorn^the hearb Penyroial floureth freHijeven asit hangs 

 within houfe drie and readie to wither. At which time all parchments and fuch like bladders o? 

 skins are fo pent and ftretched with fpirit and windjihatthey burfiwithall.Aman mightmarveU 

 '^'^TdsJ* " hereatjwho murketh not by daily expetiencejthatoneheatbe called *Hciiotropium,rcgardeth 

 and looketh toward the Sunne ever as hegoethjturning with him at all houresjnotwithitanding 

 he be (haddowed under a cloud. Now certaine it isjihat the bodies of oyfterSjmuskles^cockleSj | 

 S'Svilrygoid. ^""^ iliell-firnesigrovv by the power of the^lpone^and thereby againdiminifliiyea^and fomc 

 ' have found out by diligent fearch intoNaturesfccrctSathat the fibres or filaments in the livers of 

 rats and mice, aniwere in number to the daies of the Moones age: alfo that the leaft creature of 

 all othersjthe Pifipire/eeleth the power of thisPlanetjand alwaies in the chaunge of the Moon 

 ceale th from worke . Certes^the more fhame it is for man to be ignorant and unskilfully elpeci- 

 ally feeing that hee muft confeflcjthatlbme labouring beaits have certaine difeafes in their cics, 

 which with the Moone doe grow and decay .Howbeit the excellive greatneflc of the heaven and 

 exceeding heigth therof^divided as it is into 72 fignes, maketh fothimjS^ ferveth for his excufe.' 

 Now thefeligns are the refemblanccs of things or livingcreaturesjinto which the skilful! Aftro- 

 iiomers have with good refpe(3: digefted the firmament. For example fake,, in the taile of Tau- ^ 

 r us thci'e be (even, which they named in old time Vergtlia ; in the forehead other fevcn ci^ed 

 Sucuk: and Boous who followeth after the waine,or great ^^u^Septentriones^ 



Chap. XLII. ' 

 ^ The cmfes ofrAtne^ jhoivers^winds^And clouds-. 



Cannot denicjbut without thcfe caufes there arife raincsand winds: for that 

 certaine it is, how there is fent forth from iheearthamiflfbmetimes moift, 

 othcrwhiles fiiiokie, by reafonof bote vapours and exhalations. Alfb,that 

 clouds are engendred by vapours which are gone up on high,or els of the aire L 

 gathered into a waterie liquor : that they bee thickCjgroflejand of a bodily 

 conliilence, wee gueife and colled bynodoubtfuU argument, confidering 

 that they overfhaddow theSunne,whichotherwifc maybe feene through the water, as they 

 know well,that dive to any depth whatfoever. 



Chap. XLIIL 



of Thunder and Lightening^ 



Enic I would not therefore, but that the fieric impreffions from ftars above, 

 may fall upon thefe clouds, fuch as wee oftentimes fee to fhoot in clearc and M 

 faire weather: by the forcible flroke whereof,good reafonit is,thatthe aire 

 fhould bee mightily fhaken, feeing that arrowes and darts when they are dit 

 chargedjfing and keepe a noife as they flie.But when they encounter a cloud j, 

 there arifeth a vapour with a diifonant found (like as when a red hot yron ma- 



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