Century V, 



Xiiall would be alfo made in Herbs, Poyfonous,md Purgative, whole ill 

 Qualitie ( perhaps ) may be difcharged, or attempted, by Setting ftronger 

 i Poyjons, or Purgatives, by them. 



i It is reported, that the Shrub called Our Ladies Seale, ( which is a Kinde 

 | oiBriony,) and Coleivorts, fet near together, one or both will die. The Caufe 

 i is, for that they be both great Depredatours of the Earth, and one of them 

 | ftarveth the other. The like is laid of Reed, and a Brake Both which are 

 iucculent-, And therefore the One deceiveth the Other. And the like of Hem- 

 lock and Rew • Both which draw ftrong Juyces. 



Some of the Ancients, and likewife divers of the Modern Writers, that 

 have laboured in Naturall Magick, have noted a Sympathy, between the Sun, 

 Moon, and fome Pnncipall Starres And certain Herbs and Plants. And fo 

 they have denominated fome Herbs Solar, and fome Lunar ■? And fuch like 

 Toyes put into great Words. It is manifeft that there are fome Flowers, 

 that have Refpett to the Sunne in two Kinds , The one by Opening and Shut- 

 ting And the other by Bowing and Inclining the Head. For Mary-golds, T u- 

 lippas,Pw{>ernell, and indeed moft Flowers, doe open or fpread their Leaves 

 abrodd, when the Sunne foineth ferene and fair : And again, (in fome part,) 

 clofethem, or gather them inward, either toward Night, or when the Skie 

 is overcaft. Of this there needeth no fuch Solemn Reafon to be affigned, 

 As to fay, that they rejoyceat the prefenceof the Sunne $ And mourn at 

 the abfence thereof. For it is nothing elfe, but a little loading of the Leaves, 

 and Swelling them at the Bottome, with the Moifture of the Aire whereas 

 the dry Aire doth extend them : And they make it a Peece of the Wonder, 

 that Garden Claver will hide the Stalkc, when the Sunne meweth bright • 

 which is nothing but a full Expanfionof the Leaves. For the Bowing and 

 Inclining the Head : it is found in the great Flower of the Sunne ; in Mari- 

 golds, Wart-wort, Mallow-Flowers, and others. The Caufe is fomewhat more 

 Obfcure than the former : But I take it to be no other, but that the Part 

 againft which the Sunne beateth,waxeth more faint and flaccide in the Stalke, 

 and thereby lefs able to fupport the Flower. 



What a little Moifture will doe in Vegetables, even though they be dead, 

 and fevered from the earth,appeareth well in the Experiment of faglers. They 

 take the Beard <?/an Oate , which ( if you marke it well ) is wreathed at the 

 Bottome, and one fmooth entire Straw at the Top. They take onely the 

 Part that is Wreathed, and cut off the other, leaving the Beard half the 

 Breadth of a Finger in length.Then they make a little Crofje of a jguill, long- 

 wayes, of that Part of the jgjjtf/i which hath the Pith And Crofle-wayes of 

 that Peece of the jQuill without Pith : the whole crofle being the Breadth 

 of a Finger high. Then they prick the Bottome where the Pith is, and 

 thereinto they put the Oaten beard, leaving half of it flicking forth of the 

 jguill: Then they take a little white Box of wood, to deceive Men, as if 

 fomewhat in the Box did work the Feat : In which with a Pinne, they 

 make a little Hole, enough to take the Beard, but not to let the Crofje fink 

 down,but to (tick. Then likewife by way of Impofture, they make aQue- 

 ftion : As, Who is the fairell Woman in the Company < Or, Who hath 

 a Glove, or Card i And caufe Another to name divers Perfons: And upon 

 every Naming, they ftick the Crofle in the Box, having firft put it towards 

 their Mouth, as if they charmed it, and the Crofje ftirreth not : But when 

 they come to the Perfon that they would take ^ as they hold the Crofje to 

 their Mouth, they touch the Beard with the Tip of their Tongue, and wet it, 

 and fo ftick the Crofje in the Box, and then you fhall fee it turn finely 



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