i* I BE 17. 
The Theater of Plants. 
Chap,^. 
forth the watery humours of t!iedropfie,provoketh urine 2nd helpeth co breake the (lone both in the kidneyes 
and bladder, turners may herewith (et a firme and dainty red colour into their Workes,by holding it thereto 
in the turning, 
Chap. XXXIV. 
Lapu Bezar. The Bezar done. 
H He Bezar (lone that is now frequent with us, but not that mineral! Bezar (lone of Serapio , and the 
■tril nrhpr Tralii in. urhfilf* Unn\A/IP(1P'C is nfliw miirp . ic nf frt hinh ..... «r - 
»SF* ■■fegl Other Arabian , whole knowledge is now quite loft, is of fo high efteeme,even next unto Vnicornes 
‘ home, and of fo much and excellent ule in Phylickethat I could not leave it out from the number of 
thole efpeciall drugges we have for ufe in our Ihoppes. There are two forts thereof to be had the 
one brought from the Eait, the other from the Well Indies, and knownc by the (overall names of 
their Countries: the Eaft Indie Beztr is the beft.bothiueftimationandnfejandcommethtousinfundry formes, 
and oflundryfizes, for lome are great,and thole are for Princes and great perfons, bccaufe they are not onelv 
more rare to be found, but thought to be of the more efficacy, and therefore as Diamonds,Pearler,&c. the price 
of them rileth according to their greatneffe, Garcim faith he had one weighing almoft five drammes.’as if it were' 
rare to have one o( that bigneffe, but 1 have fccne fome that have weighed above foure ounces, and fome much 
more ( burlamin doubt that they were counterfeit, and made fo great by art, that they might be of the more 
efteeme, for I accounro the fmall ones or thofe of a meane fize to be the trued and beft,if any be) fome are round 
others long or fomewhat flat, yet allofthcm for them .ft part of one colour, that is of a darke alh-colour or 
greene darke Ollive colour, and Imooth (liming, (as if they were made out of one made offtuffc and pollifhed ) 
with f undry coates, feales or fouldes like Onions, fome more, fome leffe,according to the greatneffe of the hone 
and the feales thicker or thinner alfo thereafter, hiving in fome a draw or peece of haire wrapped clofe toge¬ 
ther, or a little pouther in the middle whereabouts the done is formed, and is accounted the belt and truefto- 
tbers have fmall Hones of fruites.or other things in the middle of them, which are net thought fogood, but ra¬ 
ther counterfeited, being of a firme fubftance being broken, I meane the feales: the bell is gritty, and’ ealieto 
bebruifed into pouther, and as fome fay diffolving in water, ifirlye long therein (whichl amin doubt isa figne 
of impofture) and is infipide without ’ ® 
Lapis Be\ar cuts ttngula cornuario midis. 
Tlic Bezar ft one with die hoofe and home of the beaft „ 
any talle at all. The Welt Indie Bezar 
is likew ife of divers formes,fizes, and 
colours, fome having feales thicker or 
thinner, and fome none, with either 
pouther or peece of a roote.or fome o- 
ther thing in the middle of the ftone, 
but is of nothing that account with us 
as the Eaft Indian Bezar is, although 
fome thinke they are taken from one 
kind of beaft,and as Ioftut Fernu faith 
in his Bookeof fecrets. Printed in the 
It (titan tongue, (on whofe relations 
concerning thefe beafts, and the Bezar 
taken from them, Baptifia Cortefius t 
bath commented in his eighth decade 
Mifcelaneorum me foe indium. ) there 
arefix forts of thefe beafts,in the Weft 
Indies in whom they breed, but that 
thofe onely are of mod vertue that are 
taken from thofe beafts that live on 
the hils and mountaines, and feed 
on the more vercuatl herbes there 
growing, and namely Contrayerva as 
the Spaniards call it, which maketh 
theftone to be the moreeffc&uall (for 
as F err us faith,fome of the roote hath 
becne found in the middle of the 
ftone,) they for the mod part grow 
in the Plaines and Champion grounds: 
the beaft as Monardm deferibeth it,be¬ 
ing but one of the fixe forts, is almoft 
asbiggeasa ftagge, and of the like 
quickneffe and agility, but bodyed like 
a Goate, with homes turned backe- 
wards (the figure whereof as Clufius 
was informed, he hath fet forth with 
the forme of an hoofe, as it is in his Scholia upon Garcias , and I here exhibite their formes unto you with the 
ftones ) and therefore the Natives call them mountaine Goatcs (ye fhall have Fcrrtu his foil relation of them all, 
in another worke hereafter ) but more properly peradventure as Clufius faith, Rapi capra Rockc Goatcs* (but 
Petrus de Ofma in his Letter to CMonardus deferibing that beaft or Goate, which onely as he faith breedeth in the 
MountainesofPrr#, and in no other Countryes in thofe Indies befide, and out of which they gathered their 
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