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Chap. 1 9. grapes group not ripe by the Moon beam.
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CHAP. XIX.
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Cluflers of Grapes augment, but grow not ripe by the Moon beams,
THc Moon gives augmentation, but the Sun ripeneth. For ?h' Moons {he moves moyfture, and makes things fwell, but is too weak m
to ripen them : fo we fee plants in the day to draw nutriment plants. 1 moved by the Suns heat,and in the night they powr it forth again, and by the moy fture they draw they grow up and increafe. For as a Simile from watching and moderate exercife digeft meat, and fends it into the fart’
body, but the conco&ion is perfc&ed in the night when we deep. Uts*
As we fee in drunkards, that their drunkennefle is difeuded by deep ; fo when the Sun enlightens the day, ail things grow ripe ; but they grow great when the Moon doth her office in the night, and they fwell forth with juice. So we fee that Rofes, Lillies,and all Rowers do not open and fpread in the day-time, but in the night, and before Sun^rifing.
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when the Sun fets , and evening cold doth calm •> rhg. 1. 1.
The Jyr, and dewy Moon doth woods Embalm, Georg.
CHAP. XX.
Why Hefiod drflikes foyling t
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T ' Efiod that writ diligently of Husbandry, is oppofed by ma- Dunging a lj>y, becaufe he negle&ed foiling of the ground: For he un^boiefom. was not ignorant what he laid, but rather gives counfel for health than for fruitfulnede. For he thought the Earth fhould be foiled with other foil than with dung-hills ; and judged that fields would be made abundantly fruitful, if men would feafonably turn up with the pjough-fnare the ftalks of Lupins, Ciches, Pea- fon, Beans. For all things that grow on grounds that are dunged, whence grain yield more unhealthful juice; fo Wheat and other corn are becomes faje a iooncr lpoil’d with Weczels* and all forts of pulfe growing in toco/^tm' thofc fields, can neither laft long, nor be prefetved well, but they wil either be mouldy, -or worm-eaten. Alfo Ale Beer in cheLow- Countries boyl’d from fuch Corn,will not laft a whit, but growes fowr. Wherefore I think Hefiod Laid well, That thole fields are fit for tillage,tnat calm winds ventilate, and the fweec Sun beams cherifh, where are no Banding waters, and the fields are not far¬ ted with dung, but onely come to maturity by their clean native moyfture and heat* For what growes from thence will laft long
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How mezels that hurt the Corn may he'deftrojed. Book I.
uncorrupted, and yield more neaithiui nouruhment. And it cannot be that men mould live long healthful in thefe Countries, Ay* ani food where the Ayr or their food are naught add fubjed to corrupt ion , health! T^c one comes to pa fie where Lakes and bogs lend forth ill fonts: the other where the ground growes not fat by its native godddeffe, but by dung and foil.
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How We Zeis and other Creatures that hurt Corn may be driven away ■.
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whence Corn corrupts.
Nothing is * rri Here is nothingdn this mortal life but hath its incon vcnien- rtlj)lft,MeVe'y CQSy anc* *s noc iubjed W many mifehances. For as men are fubjed to infinite mifchiels,and many things are as fnares to their lives round about them 5 fo corn have their enemies that defiroy them, as Srnut, Gnats, Pifinires , Snails, fhell-fnails , Locuils,
- •- Moths, Caterpillars, Worms, Teredines, and the Weezd that cat ander three- deftroyes whole granaries: for this kind of Worm wicn a fharp %eis. pointed probofeis and fnout, eats into the Wheaton one fide, and
fo devours all iiowr, leaving nothing but the bran and empty {hell. Many of thefe Teredines breed forth in the Spring, Where c rn are new mowed, when the Moon is in the full, and they arc mowed and laid up wet before they grow hard , and where win- dowes of granaries ftand againft the South winds, and not toward the North. For drinetle makes all things Idle fubjed to cor¬ ruption. Some ate perfwaded, and I chink they are in the right, that the good and great God doth fometimes fend this calamity to them that are greedy and covetous of gain, who hide their corn, or keep it up too long, to the great damage of poor people, who - cannot live without it. For Gods good providence hath plentiful¬ ly given us this food, that if all other food fail ^ mencan li ve with corn haicfnii. bre-ad onely. Wherefore Corn-Engroflers are highly to be bla¬ med, who hurt the poor by railing the price of Cornj and in the greateft famins will not open their granaries, that they make the more profit. Thefe are injurious to the Common -wealth* and falfetothe poor, whole curies are poured out againft them contir dually. For as Solomon faith, He that hides his Corn [hall have the peoples curfe $ hue he that brings it forth? fhall be blejfed by them. But God oft-times fuffers us to be thus afflided, when we are ingrate- lull ro him for the great abundance we have received. For by Ezekiel he threatened^ to fend four Calamities to thofe that for- God fends four ^ake ™rn’ Fam*nc5 Pefiilencc, War, and wild Beads ; that being calamities en afflided with thefe, they might come to a better mind and repent.
But if Natural caufes> and not Gods wrath do fend this mifebief,
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Chap. 22. The cunningnef e of worm in Mans body.
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we muft confiier,how little creatures that deftroy the Corn may
be driven away, or elic killed.
There is nothing better to kill Weczcls than brine in which Howma^eis Garlick is boyl’d, it the pavements and walls be moyftned with afe drlijm it* for they prcfently creep out of thofe granaries, and dye with awaj' the very, vapour of it.
Alfo Sagapenum,Oyl lees, Caftorium, Savin, Brimftonc, Harts¬ horn, Ivy,c Galbanum, and all things that fmellftrong; for nei¬ ther will Serpents, Snakes, nor Bats endure the ftnell of them.
Which ftr oil the Father of all Learning affirms,
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The [moke of Galbanum doth Snakes withstand.
So they flee from the ftrong fmelling flowers of Hops, which alfo are offensive to mens brains, and caufe heavinefle and drun- kennefle in the head. Alfo the flowers of Elders, the fmell whereof drives away Caterpillars, and it kills Moths and cloath- flics, as Wormwood, Rue, wild Mints, Southernwood, Savory, Walnut-leafs, Fern, Lavender, Gith, Coriander being green,
Fl^ wort, Bean trifoly kills fleas and Wiglice,cither put under the beds, or fprinkled upon the bedfteads with the decodfion of the vin^ar ot Squils.
It is obferved,that in our times, and alfo in our Anceftors days, the feed of Navews, that the Low-Countrey fa&ors make fo great profit of, hath a wonderful force in killing Wcezels, not by any venomous quality, but by the fweetneffe of it. For it is fweet andoyly, and the Weezels will leavethe Corn and eat greedily on this till they be killed with. And the fame thing happens to sweet things , them when they get into frails of Raifins. So I know by expe- f°metimes hit rience , that eating many Raifins will kill the Worms in °'m' Children, if they eat them fafting, without any thing elfe eaten with them. For as bitter, fo fweet things taken abundantly will kill worms : For they fwell and burft with eating too much fweet meats. So the ftomach of a man will fwell, and be tortured, if
he cram in too much fweet things.
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The cunningnejje of worms in Mans body , and what it portends, when they come forth by the Mouth and Noftrils9
IT hath been feen fometimes miraculoufly, that long and round Worms efpecially, havecrambled upwards, and crept forth at the mouth and thenoftrils; and they do this by an imbred
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Worm creeping out at the iio~ (hilt.
Mice forfait old hotifes.
Experience from the (ago- city ef Lice.
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natural motion, if a man belong fading. For then they bite the ftomach, and feek for meat, and when they find none to fatisfie them and preferve their lives, they creep upwards, and hunt for meat as far as the very throat. For they by their natural lnftimft perceive, that the food comes in that way, and thenoflrils being open to the very throat almoft , they creep thither, and tickle the part, or elfe they are caft forth by fncefirtg, or are pulled forth with ones forefingers ; I have off-times obferved this in found people, and when I (hewed them the caufe of it, I gave them content.
I have feen thisalfo happen in fick people, but not without fome imminent danger forefhew’d by it : For fo great is the pu- trefadson and inflammation of humours in fuch bodies, that the Worms cannot endure the deadly force of the difeafe : wherefore they break forth of thcmfelves, not urged by any Crifis, or natu¬ rally, but from the malignity of the difeafe. But when the vio¬ lence of the difeafe abates, and they are carried downwards with other excrements, Hippocrates holds that to be healthfull 5 but to comeforth of their own accord, and not forced by any faculty, as we fee in people that are dying, is ill for the patient, for by a fagacity of nature they find the body ready to fail, and that they (hall want their food, and therefore they leave their habita¬ tion.
So it is obfefvcd , that Rats and Mice will forfake ruinous houfes, three moneths before they fall. For they naturally per¬ ceive that the frame of the houfe begins to part, and that the houfe will fhortly fall S o Lice and Fleas, where they find mens bodies decay, and that the blood fails in every part, they either leave the body, or lay hold on thofe parts that the blood and naturall heat flay longeft in. For it is approved by thofethat fearch and bury the dead, that they will hide thcmlelves in that pic of the ftomach where the breaft blade ends, or in that grille that lyes upon the vocal artetie. For thofe parts being next the heart, are hot untill the laft breath * which when fome related .unto me that were employed about fick people, I Laid prefently. That it was a certain fign of death) and that the Soul was ready to breathe forth. But fince we formerly made mention of Worms, ‘ I thought fit to add this , That many things will kill all worms and drive them forth. But nothing is better than Worms dryed upon a tile at the fire, and the powder given to thofe that are full of worms, will prefently drive forth all within the body: As Pliny and other fearchers of Natural things atfert, that a man being flung by a Scorpion, the remedy is to drink in oyl or wine, the aines of Scor¬ pions.
So our Countrey-men fay, that the biting of a mad-dog is cu¬ red by the burnt hairs of the fame creature, drank in wine. For it drives forth the venome, and keeps off all the danger of it, and brakes ?he body that is bit, that it is of force to attraft, and over¬ come
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Chap. 2 2. The cunningneffe of Worms in Alans body.
come the venome. So fometimes two contrary poyfons mingled, do cure and not kill: As tAufonm wittily lets down in an Epi¬ gram, concerning a woman that would have pQyfoned her hus¬ band with Wolfs-bane :
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Cjave poyfon 7 yet foe fear'd it would not do ;
Wherefore Quick ji l Her intermingled [bee.
Thought for to haflen death , which fet him free.
For if' apart thefe poyfons you fo all give 3 *.»;
They kill 3 but joynd together , make him live ,
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