together, and quench Steel Red Hot therein, four or five times, and it will become as Soft as Paste.-This is affirmed by the Scholars of Padua.

28. A most pleasant remedy for them that are infected with the Plague, Carbuncle, Pestilential Pustules, Holy Fire, and of that kind. Take of the Ripe Berries of Ivy, dried in the shade, stamp and make them into Powder. Take half a drachm of it in two or three ounces of the Water of Plantain, and remain still in the bed, until you have sweat very well; and after you have sweat, put on a clean shirt well aired at the fire, and if you can conveniently, let the sheets and clothes of the bed be shifted. There hath been some healed with this in one night. This is Proved. Alexis of Piedmont saw one helped with taking this Powder twice; that is morning and evening, having two Sores appearing, which, with this Powder, broke the next day after, and so recovered.

29. To make an Egg ascend into the Air. In the month of May fill an Egg Shell clean emptied, with Dew, and stop the hole well, then lay the Egg in the Hot Sun about noon, and it will be lifted up; but if you set a staff by it, it will ascend the more easy.-J. Weckeris.

30. To make a Thin Glue; a trim secret. Take the Glue made of Fish, and beat the same strongly on an anvil till it be thin, which, after, lay to soak in Water until it become very soft and tender, which will be within five or six hours, then work it like paste; stretch it, or draw it out very thin. When you will work with it, put some of it into an earthen pot with a little water over the embers, and scum the same very clean, and let it seeth a little while; then after work with the same keeping it still over the hot embers, until you have done with it, for so it fasteneth and bindeth the stronger, and in such sort, that it fasteneth pieces of glass together.—Proved.

31. If you would destroy Caterpillars, do thus: Anoint all the Bottom of the Tree round about with Tar, then get a great sort of Ants, or Pismires; and put them into a Bag; draw the same by a Cord unto the Tree, and let it hang there, so that it touch not the Body of the Tree; the Ants will not go down the Tree by reason of the Tar, and for want of food will eat and destroy all the Caterpillars there, without hurting any of the fruit.—This was told me for a very truth.

32. Make a hole in the end of a Goose Egg, and put all the White and Yolk out of it; then put into the shell a Bat that flies about in the evening, and glue or close it fast on the top, and you shall see the Bat fly away with the same Egg Shell, to the great marvel of them that know it not.-Proved. 33. Rub any precious Stone upon Lead, and if it change

colour, then it is a counterfeit Stone; if it change not, then it is a natural and good Stone.

34. Stamp Celandine, and lay it in any Tetter or Ringworm, or any other such-like called Imsperigo, or Spergo, shifting it twice every day with new, for the space of a fortnight, and it will quite destroy and kill them. And also it will put away any Black Spots with the like using thereof, in what part of the Body soever they might be.

35. A very good Laxative Dredge Powder, whereof you may take a spoonful when you need in your pottage or broth, and it will make you go to Stool. Take of pure Turbith one ounce; Ginger, Cinnamon, Mastich, Anniseed Hermodactils, Diadredion, of each half an ounce; of the Leaves of Sena two ounces; of Sugar four ounces; beat all into fine Powder, and let them be mixed together. Leonardas Fuchstus.

36. Take the Stones out of Raisins of the Sun, stamp the said Raisins, and apply a plaister thereof to any Grief or Ach, and it will cease it presently; and if you use it five or six times in such order, it will thoroughly help and cure the same. I have seen it proved.

37. If you gather Green Beans from the Stalks when they be ripe, fully grown, and ready to eat, and immediately cut off the Stalks with a handful of the Root, then new and more Branches will shortly spring out of the same; whereupon will spring forth new Beans more plentiful than before, and as good as the first; whereby you may have more than double increase, and two several gatherings of Beans in one year. But take heed that the first gathering and cutting away of the Stalks be when the said Stalks be green. I have seen it proved therefore I write and publish it for an undoubted truth. It is credibly told me, that if you use Peas in the saine order, the like effect will follow; which I believe to be true, ' well th the one as in the other.

38. Take a little Rue, or Herbegrace, and stamp the same, then strain out the Juice thereof, and after you have thus done, let the Party that is pained with the Tooth Ache drop three or four drops of the Juice into his Ear, on that side the pain is, and let him lie on the other side an hour or two, and it will not only take away the present pain, but also the Party that trieth it shall never be troubled with the Tooth Achè afterwards. This was reported to me for a truth, by one who had proved the

same.

39. Lay a Dish over Hot Sodden Milk, and there will be Water on the inside of the Dish, which Water keep in some glass, whereof if a little be put into sore, pained, or dim Eyes, it will help them marvellously. This was affirmed to me for a

truth.

40. A Fly drowned in Water, Wine, Ale, or Beer, and so

thoroughly dead, being laid in Warm Ashes (but they must not be burning or very hot) will recover and live again. This is very true.

41. If you do gather Roses when they be fully ripe, and immediately cut away the new tops and the uppermost branches of that year, you shall have new and fresh Roses grow the same year about Michaelmas.-I know this to be true, and for a truth I have published it abroad.

42. Worms and Venomous Creatures are driven away from any place with the Smoke or Fume of other Creatures of the same kind.

43. Quicksilver Killed, Burned Lead, the Scales of Iron, or Black Hellebore, mixed with some pleasant meat that the Mice love, if any Mice eat thereof, it will kill them.-Mizaldus.

44. There is a certain Gum brought from the firm land of Peru, which helps the Gout with purging the cause thereof; if you put of it as much as a nut in Distilled Water, which Water ought to be the quantity of two ounces, and give the same to the Patient, he must forbear meat till the midst of the day.

45. If a handful of Figs be stamped till the Kernells be broken, then tempered with a little Fresh Grease, and so a plaster thereof laid to a Woman's Breast that is Sore, as hot as she can suffer the same, it will take away the Swelling and Pain thereof; and if it be ready to break, it will break it, or else not. An excellent and sure tried thing.

46. Take two ounces of Sulphur Vive, called Quick Brimstone, beat it in Powder, and mix the same well with as much Black Soap that is of the most stinking smell, and tie the same in a linen cloth; let it hang in a pint of strong Wine Vinegar for the space of nine days, and then wash any kind of Scurviness or Morphew therewith, though never so old or rooted, being in the face or any other part of the body, with a linen cloth dipped or wet therein, and so let the same Vinegar dry in of itself; do thus as long as the said Vinegar lasteth, and therewith the Deformity or Morphew will be perfectly healed. And whosoever useth to drink the Water of Strawberries Distilled, it will certainly kill the Root of any Morphew that is within the Skin.-Proved.

47. An excellent preservative against the Plague, which was proved and used in the great Plague Time in England, in the year of our Lord 1548; for every one that used it then escap ed. Take Aloes, Hepatica, pure Cinnamon, Myrrh, of each three drachms; Cloves, Mace, Wood of Aloes, called Lignum Aloes, Mastich, Bole Armoniac, of each half an ounce; mix them all together, and make thereof a very fine Powder, whereof take early in the morning with White Wine mixed

with a little Water, and by the grace of God you shall be preserved from the Plague.-Wickerus.

48. If you burn the Shells of Snails with Styrax, and then sprinkle thereof upon Ants Hill, thereby they will be driven forth of the ground or place where they are.

49. Take English Saffron, beaten in fine Powder, and as much of pure and good Black Soap, which, when they be well mingled together, spread it upon the fleshy side of a piece of Leather, then lay it upon the Navel of them whose Urine or Water is stopped, and it will procure the Water to come forth within an hour.—This was told me for a truth and tried secret, whereof I dare make no warrantise: but favour it as you find it.

50. Quick Lime mixed with Old Cheese, and well beaten together, will fasten and glue strongly together broken Stone Vessels, and also broken Glass.-This was credibly told me for a very great secret by one that proved it.

51. If the bottom of a Seething Pot, with Meat, newly taken from the fire, may be touched or felt without harm or danger of burning, then certainly the same Meat is boiled enough; but if it be hot, and not sufferable, then it is not sufficiently sod.—This I know to be true, for I have seen the trial thereof.

52. The Water of Distilled Honey makes fair and comely coloured Hair, if it be often moistened or spunged therewith.-Proved.

53. The Roots of Hollyhocks stamped and mixed with the Grease of an Old Hog, and plastered to the Gout, helpeth it in three or four days.-P. Hispanus.

54. Verjuice sod until it be very hot, then put into a tin bottle with a narrow mouth, and holden to or in the Ear, that the Fume may enter into the Head, it will help the Head-Ache marvellously, and the sounding of the Ears; and if there be any Quick Things in the Head, it will bring them forth with great speed.—A gentleman taught this to a woman that was sore tormented in her head, estceming it a precious and rare secret. But I never tried it; therefore, as it proves, so praise it.

55. I have heard it told for a very truth by divers persons, that in the Plague Time, in the castle of Cullen, there was a certain Woman died, and was buried with a Ring of Gold upon her Finger, , for the goodness whereof a covetous Fellow after she was buried, digged her grave, and opened the coffin wherein she did lie, thinking to take away the Ring from her finger, but immediately the said Woman did stir or move, and began to sit up, which, when the Fellow saw, with great fear he ran away; the Woman by some means did unloose

the sheet wherein she was wrapped, and strait went home to her husband, and called upon him to let her into the house; whom when he heard, he thought it had been a Spirit; but at last through her importunate calling, he received her into the house, and thus wonderfully she recovered and lived, and after that had three or four children. Of whom it was said there is a monument in the said city of Cullen. Therefore too hasty or quick burial is not to be used, as not only this rare example may sufficiently teach us, but also for such causes as I have alledged in another place of this book.

56. If you graft the Slip of a Wilding or Sour Apple upon the Stock of the Hawthorn, you shall have Medlars grow thereof. -This I have seen proved, therefore I affirm it for a very truth.

57. Whosoever shall wear about their Middle such a Girdle as followeth, tying it fast that it fall not away, they shall not fear Drowning, whereby they may pass over any water without danger, though it be ever so deep; for so long as they have it about them, they cannot sink. Take two pieces of good Neat's Leather, well tanned and dressed, such as footballs be made of, each piece being of the breadth of five or six fingers, and of such a length as will make a sufficient Girdle for you; let a shoemaker sew them very strong and thick stitched, and surely together, and likewise at both the ends; and in the midst thereof fasten a Pipe, like to a bagpipe, wherewith blow the same Girdle as full of Wind as pos sible; then under the nether end of the Pipe tie the leather very fast and sure, that joins the pipe and girdle together, with a packthread, or with some other sure and strong thing, lest the wind come out of the Girdle, whereof you must take great heed. Also blow three Ox Bladders full of Wind, and tie them hard, that the wind go not forth, and sew each of them strongly and surely within good strong Neat's Leather, round like a football, and make three strong Loops upon the said Girdle, one against the middle of the back, and each side one; then tie fast and surely one of the bladders to each of the said loops, and tie the Girdle about and sure, your middle and then you cannot sink into the water, and so you fast very may pass safely over, if the water be not too broad and too rough.

58. Gellius writes, that the Hege-Hog makes the mouth of bis hole, cabin, or cave, always contrary to the Wind.