U Plinics Naturall HiAorie. 



ing over her whole bodie : but having recouri^ to Fennellj with the juice thereof (he cafleth that 

 old coat that cjoggerh her^and appearech frefh^flickejand young again. Now the manner of this 

 her uncafingjis this : fhe.beginneth firft a« the headland turneth the skin over it^ and thus fhe is a 

 vsholc day and a night a folding it backewardj before the infide of that inembrane can bee tur- 

 ned outward^andfofhciscleaneridof itMoreovcrjwhen by lying ftill and keeping clofeall the 

 Winter time^her fight is become dim arid dgrke, ihee rubheth and Icourcth her felfe with the 

 faidhearbeFcnneilj and'therewith armointeth and comfortethhereies . Butiftheskalesthat 

 are overgrowne her skiuj^be hard and ftiffcg inot willing to part and bftremovedjfliee rfa^keihno 

 more adaCjb.utfcratchetbthem: with (haijpc, juniper prickes,, i '.t.ir.'' n ioni nrriQ-o/ i vos ' U\ ■ 

 The Dragon finding acertaine loathing of meat^ and overturning of her ftomackfem th^ 

 Spring time, cureth and h^lpeth the rame.with the juice of the wild Le.^uce* - v c : ■ , 



The barbarous people when they hunt the Panthers,rub the gobbets of fleflij which they lay 

 as a bait for themjwith Aconitum(a kind of ppyfon-full hearb.) The beafts have no fooner tou- 

 ched the flefh^btitprefently their throat fweliethj and they are readie to bee ftifled and choked i 

 wheruponfome men have called this venomous hearb PardaIianches5iLibard bainc, or choke 

 Libard. But the wild beaft hach a remedie againft this^ nameJyjthe ordure and excrements of a 

 man: yeajand at other timesalfojwhen he isnot thus poyfbnedjfo eager he.is thereofjthatwhen 

 the fheephcards for the nonce have hanged them up aloft in fome ve{iell above their reach, al- 

 though cheyleape up at themjhee is rcadie to faint with mounting on highjand (training to get 

 thefame^and in the end killcth himfelfe tlierwith^and lieth dead on the ground. And yet other- 

 Q wife he is too untoward for to be killed,and fo long it is ere he will die^th^^when he is paunched^ 

 and his very guts come forth ofhisbellic^he will live ftill, and fight. ' 



TheElephantif hechaunce to let the [Lizard] Chameleon goe downe his throat among o- 

 ther hearbes or leaves3(which this Lizard alwaies is like unto in colour)hee goeth ftreightwaies 

 to the wild Olive^theonely remedie he hath of this poyfon. 



BeareSjwhen they have eaten Mandragc applesjicke up Piliiiircs to cure themfelves withall. 



The Stag and Hind feeling themfelves poyfoned with fome venomous weed among the 

 grafle where they pariure5goe by and by to the Artichoke,, and therewith cure themfelves. 



The Stock-doves,tbe laieSjMerleSjBIackbirds, Oufelsj recover their appetite to meatjwhich 

 once in a yeare they loofejwith eating Bay- leaves that purge their ftomacke. Partridges, Houfe- 

 doves. Turtledoves, and allPullein, as Hens, Cockes, and CaponSjdoe the like with Parietaric 

 of thewall. Duckes^Geele, and other water-foules purge with the hearbe Endive or Cichorie. 

 Cranes an4fuch like helpe themfelves that way with the Marifh reed. 



The Raven when he hathkillsd the Chameleon, and yet perceiving that bee is hurt and poy- 

 foned by him, flieth for remedie to the Lawrcll, and with it repreffcch and extinguiilieth the ve- 

 nome that he is intccted withall. 



Chap, xsviii. 



The Pregndflication of weather ^ take?) by the obfervation ef 

 dimbe creatures, 



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Moreover, the fame univerfall Nature hath given a thouiand properties befides unto 

 beafts: and namely, hath endued very many of them with the knowledge and obfervati- 

 on of the aire abovcjgiving us good meanes by them diverle waies,to fore- fee v^hat wea- 

 ther wee fhall have,what winds,what raine,what.tempefts will follow : which to decipher in perti- 

 cular,it is not poirible,no more than to difcoiirfe throughly of their other qualities they have,re- 

 fpedive to the focietie with every man.For they advcrtife and warne us beforehand of dangers 

 to come,not onely by their fibres and bowels (about the skill and prefage whereofjthe moff part 

 of the world is amufed) but alfo by other manner of tokens and figaifications. When an houfe 

 is readie to tumble downe, the mice goe out of it before randfirffof all, the fpiders with their 

 p wcbsfalldown. Asfor the flight of birds and their fore-tokeningjcalled Augurie,thereisan Art 

 of it, and the knowledge thereof is reduced into a method, in fo much as at Rome there was a 

 coUedge of Augutes inff i tuted : by which it may appeare in what account and regard that facet- 

 dotall dignitieand profeffion was. InThraciajwhichis a cold and frozen countrey, the Fox 

 alfo will not paiTe over any river or poole that is frozen, before hee trie the thickneffe of ihe ycc 



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