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in love with the place, that they will never forsake it. Hither belongeth that no*table Disagreement that is betwixt Garlick and the Load-stone: tor being smearedabout with Garhke, it will not draw iron to it; as P/#r*r^hath noted, and afterhim Ttolomaus : the Load-stone hath in it a poisonous vertue, and Garlick is goodagainst poison jbut if no man had written of the power of Garlick against the Load-stone, yet we might conjecture it to be so, because it is good against viper*, andmad dogs, and poisonous waters. So likewise those living creatures that arc ene-mies to poisonous things, and swallow them up without danger, may shew us thatsuch potions will cure the bitings and blows of those creatures. The Hart and theSerpent are at continual enmity: the Serpenc as soon as he Teeth the Hart,gets himinto his hole, but the Hart draws him out again with the breath of his nostrils,anddevours him: hence it is that the sac and the blood of Harts, and the stones thatgrow in their eyes, are ministred as fit remedies agairst the stinging and biting ofserpents. Likewise the breath of Elephants draws Serpents out of their dens,and they fight with Dragons t and therefore the members of Elephants burned,drives away Serpents. The Storks drive out of the Counrreyes where they arc, Ly-zards, and sundry kinds of Serpents, and other noisome things in the fields: andthe entrails of them all are good against the Storks. The fame is done also in Egyptby the bird Ibis. That Indian Rat, called Ichneumon, doth harneffe himself withsome of the Lote-tree, and so fights against the Asp. The Lamprey fights with Ser-pents, and with her biting, kills the Basilisk, which is the most poisonous serpentthat is. So also the crowing of aCock affrights the Basilisk, and he fights with Ser-pents to defend his hens • and the broth of aCock is a good remedy against thepoison of serpents. So the Snail and the Eagle. The Stellion, which is a beast likeaLyzard, is an enemy to the Scorpions j and therefore the oyle of him being pu-trified is good to anoint the place which is stricken by the Scorpion. The Barbel eatsup the Sea-hare, and is good against the poison thereof. A Swine eats up a Salaman-der, without danger, and is good against the poison thereof. The Hawk is an enemyco the Chamæicon, and his dung drunken in wine, is good against the poisonof the Chameleon, Likewise out of the 8; mpatbies of plants, we may gather semesecret, which is helpful -gainst some kind of hurt. The herb Corrnda, whereofSperage comes, is most fitly planted where Reed grows, because chey are of muchlikeneffe and neerntffe; and both of them are inciters to lust. The Vine and theOlive-tree do joy in each others company, as Africanns writes: both of thwjHjevery commodious for mens uses. In like manner the Morehenne loves the H*tc,which is given to lust g both of their members aredpeiters to venery. The Goatand the partridge love each other ; and both these are good for ooe and the same rf-medy. So the fish Sargus and the Goat. A Dog is most friendly to a manj and ifyou lay him to any diseased part of your body, he takes away the disease to himself;as Pliny reported:.

Chap. VIII,

That things receive their force and. power from Heaven, and from the Starts and thatthereby many things are wrought*

1 Suppose that no man doubts but that these inferiour things serve their superiours,and chat the generation and corruption of mutable things, everyone in his duecourse and order, is over-ruled by the power of those heavenly Natures. TheÆgyptians, who first proved and found out the effects of the heavens, becausethey dwelt in the open Champion-fields, where they had continually fair wea-ther, and there were no vapours sent up from the earth which might hindertheir contemplation of heaven, so that they might continually behold theStars in their brightneffe, did therefore wholly bestow themselves in the know-ledge of heavenly influences: and whereas others that were not so diligentas they, stood amazed at the causes of things, these men referred all co theheavens and the Stars, that all things took their destiny from them, and that theinfluence of heaven bare great sway in all generations acid corruptions} and thusobserving the motions of the stars to and fro, they wrought many wonderful things;