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Viofc.rides faith, thai whiteChamxlcon made up with Barley-Flcur, will killD°g s , Sows, and Mice , being wci with water or Oyl. 7hcophraftus faith , Dogsand Sows kneaded with water and Oyl: but with Colewons Sows. Nux vomica,which from*the effect is called Dogs Nut , if it be filed , and the thin filings thereofbe given with Butter or tome fat thing to a Dog to swallow, it will kill him in threehours space* he will be astonished, and fall suddenly, and dies without any noise: butit must be fresh, that Nature seems to have produced this Nut alone to kill Dogs.They will not eat the Fruit of the Ash, because it makes pain in their back-bcnc andhips: yet Sows are fatted by it So there is one Plant, called Dogs bane. Chry~fipptu faith, that Dogs are killed with it, if the shoots of it are given to them withwater. Dogs cole, or wiide cole, if it be given with Flesh z so theiumrs of Lead.jinslotle in his wonders,concerning the Country of the Scythians and Medes, faith,that there is Barley that men feed on ; but Dogs and Sows will not endure the Ex-crements of tho e that eat it, as being poyson to them. I fay nothing of Acouitum,Called by ‘Diofcoriaes, Dogs bane. I shall fay the lame

Of Wolfs bane.

Wolfs bane kills Wolfs and many other wild Beasts; and it’s so called from the effect.Mountebanks make venome thus: Take black Hellebore, two ounces ; Ycw-leaves,one ounce. Beech-tinde, Glass, quick Lithe,'yellow Arstoick , of each one ounceand half ; of sweet Almonds three ounces ; Honey what may suffice. Make pel-lets, as big as a small Nut. Others take Wolfs bane , yellow Arfenick, and Ycw-leaves , of each alike, and mingle them. There are other Herbs that kill Wolfs:but I pass them, to avoid tedioulnefs. o£han faith, Bv Nilus grows an Herb calledWolfs bane ; if a Wolf tread on it, he dies of convulsions. Wherefore the Egyp-tians forbid any such Herb to be imported into their Country , because they adorethis Creature. There are also

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Herbs that kjfl UWice.

That Aconittm, which is called Myoctonor., kills Mice a great way off. Diofceride*and "Njcatidor . Staves-acre hath almost the lame forces, whose Root or Seed inpowder, mingled with Meal, and fried with Butter, kills Mice if they eat it. Theyare driven away with the Root of Daffodils 5 and if their holes be stopt with it,theydie. The wiide Cucumber, and Cole quint id a , kill Mice. If Mice eatTithymal,cut into small flices , and mingled with Flour and Metheglin , they will be bliede.So Chameleon, Myacanthus, Realgar, namely, of live Brimstone, quick Lime andOrpiment will do the lame. But amongst

Wolfs banes,

is reckoned Libards bane, by whose Root, powdered, and given with flesh, theyare killed. Flesh is strewed with Aconite,and Panthers are killed if they taste thereof.Their jaws and throat are presently in pain : therefore it is called Pardaiii-nches.They are killed also by Dogs bane- which also they call Pardalianches.

Lions bane

is called Leontophonon : it is a little Creature that breeds nowhere but where theLien is. Being taken,it is burnt: and with the Ashes thereof, flesh is strewed ; and,being cast in the high-ways where they meet, Lions arc killed : so Pardaliancheskills Lions as well as Panthers.

Ox bane.

The juice of black Chameleon kills Heifers by a Quinfey : wherefore some call itUlophonon. Oxen fear black Hellebore, yet they will eat the white.

(foats bane.

There is an Herb , that from killing Beasts , but especially, Goats, is called Æ'golethros. The Flowers of it, in a watry Spring-time, are venome when they

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