Book III

knowing and induftrious. Every where neere the Sea, there are Fores and Bullwarks raifed to relift the Sea-waves , at their very entrance and firft coming into the Haven, made of beams and long artifichu p0ics drove in ftraight and erode wayes, which, befideshuge rfmonwyf* mighty Clones , that are caftin, to fatten the work, are propped with bands of Faggots, and crofle beames of wood. This Engine is like a Promontory that fticks forth: and is a fafe fhelter for Ships to ride under. Mot onely our men, but the Italians and Spaniards call this ftrudure the Cape ; whether it be artificiall or naturall : and in cofmographicall deferiptions it goes under that name. Sea¬ weed grows abundantly, fticking faft to this, which though it be vile and bale , which befides that it is a Proverb , Virgil alfoob-
Bafev than Sea fervedj Tpeed.Eclpg.
Ruder than Kneeholme> than Sea-weed more hafer.
Yet it hath fornc ufe in Phyfick : for it abateth pains of the Gowt and Joynts , the body being firft purged , it difeuffeth in¬ flammations, it cools and dryesfarr more effectually than Ducks what is water- meat upon ponds, which is as it were a mofly excrement of ftand- ^“r^ulonof ing waters , that Geefe and Ducks feed on willingly. -But fince sea-wee^0 there are many kinds of Sea- weeds , that which is common amongft us, is with branches , glib , fubftantiall , knotty, with fwoln Bladders and Appendixes , and full of branches, which be¬ ing preffed with the tops of your fingers , will crackle and make a noyfe , like Scna-leaves. This Sea-weed is with a membranous leafe , and fwelling little Bladders , ftretchedour by wind, that fhine and are fmooth as if they were polifhed, it fiotes for the tnoft part, and fwims above the waters, and when the waters are gon, it finks down aud flags , and lies upon the twigs and poles that prop whathtbe co - hup, as if were good for nothing 3 the colour ofitisred, dark, uncalled Ra- tawny, that confifts of a mixture , of brown and black, between a tw. grey and a yellow, and next to a full dark green 5 It fticks faft to
the rods and ftakes, that are driven into the thore to fence the ram¬ pants, like glew or birdlime , (having no root to help it to fold a- bout)that it can hardly be pulled away. Another kind of Sea-weed kindofs™ that is under the Sea-water,as grade weed grows in Lakes and ftan- 58 feed* ding waters, it is very thick together and lo defends it lelfe,the leafe
of it is like Fennell leafe, and fmall as hairs, the colour is unplea- font, with a mo tty and hairy concrcffion: our Country people call it tVoer , and focne mert> which is drawn out of the Sea, with nets? together with Crabs and other fmall fifti, and rubbifh. But Phy - cos , or Sea Fucw is next kin to Sea-wced, and is like it in forme and effeCi , as Arifotle thinks , and Pliny after him. But Mode
m'rimd. Oiuft bc held t0 be a thing different from thefe : onc kind whcre0^ grows not onely on the fhores, but upon the ftems of (hips , when
they come home from long Voyages , to which not onely Mode §C Sea-weeds, but (hetl-fifh, & a little filh called Echineis ttick fo
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faft, that they v^ili (top S .4ps, and hinder their courfc, therefore"
Our men ufe to rub them off with (harp brufhes, and ferape them away with Irons chac are crooked for the purpofc, chat the (hip being tallowed and carined well and (mooch ly, may fail the fafter.
This common kind of mode grows abundantly in ihe Belgick Oce- an, of a grafle^green colour, which yet will degenerate into a yel¬ low or yellowuh colour, as,attbe end of Summer, Vine-leaves, and leaves of Trees do; it hath nG root to grow upon, to fupport it, yet it cleaves with a tenacious holding fall to the ground it lieth upon, or clfc being Ipfead over the uutioftcOafb ot the Sea, and the brinks thereof, it is lifted Up by the Sea-riling^ and finks down When it goes oUr again; But Sea-mofie that Diofcoridei deferibes, is wholly different from this, for that mud be judged to be an Sf*Mofeisa heath ol ftalky concretion, and a hairy growing together, with mcretii flendef hairs, and (mall Balks, that are wooddy below, with leaves as fmal 1 as hairs, curled, and nicked, white and Afh-colourd, dnd by age waxing red, duelling like Soothcrnwood, or Sea^worru- Wood, pleafam, yet weighty, a good remedy for thofe that have Worms, and foon helps, the heatb being beaten to powder, and a penny of a drachm Weight of ic, given with Wine £ for it hath the fartieopc ration with Sea-wotmwood, and is near a kin to it, and like it, if you .look upon it When ic fitft comes forth, and fhews it fell, if you regard the numerous leaves of it, ©rthe growing ftalks, or the crifped and jagged skirts it hath; Mountebanks call it Co- CoraUiM*,** rallioa, becaufeit is taken hanging faft to, and folded about, Go- t^b0thatta^s fa l in the Ligufian Sea, and drawn forth with nets* **
But there are in Zelandy who art thetitftioft people of thfe Bel¬ gick nation (whom TttciW calls (JWattiacos , from their fotiable p* Maniac? agreement, ds 1 ("hall fay ittore at large, a little after) Plains that ™Uedr*slk^ ‘ are very long and broad, and from the dfcfcertt of the Bulwarks, thmflZujfa ‘ there are mofi plentifull patlutc^grounds to fat Cattle, wherein do J
gfoW various kindt of htatbs, as Sampire Kaly, or Sea-houfleek,
‘O cache, Purflaib, Sea-cole, Halimus, Heft-barrow, with a purple flower, and little branches full of prickles, fit to break the ftone.
Sea-weed, Corallinaa little ftirub : but Buckthorn grows foifie three Cubits high, and is proper for ftrtdyand bfambly grounds, in fome places it grows like a Tree, as Chrifts thofn, that is It fie h, . ; ,
fruitfull, with botighs that arc ftabbfrrn, and hard rd bleak, with leaves like the Olive, btft narrower, green a top) and white tinder, * J
ncXc the earth, the berries are round) and 4s greaf as a Roman Peafe, and they grow together in clullers, and the boUghs foldclofc one within the other, and the fruit hangs by a, very final! ftalk, and is of a yellow colour, and when it is ripe like SaffrOn, fowre and bitter in tafte, and it draws forth fpictle abundantly, and quenchcth the third in Pcavcrs, having one kernel Within, yet not hard as ftoife, as your Cofneil-bcrries, or white Thorn-berries 4fe, that is, that fharp Thorn, that in the Month of May, when all things ftourilh, is very graccfull, and fmcllsfweet, or like to Bar¬ berries, blit ic is eafily broken with the Teeth* But that which isr
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Of a jingular new way bow to make Salt. Book 111.
peculiar lor buiby and downy places, is called by the Wanders Down Berries ; when Autumn begins they ufe to drefjfe up their chambers and houfes with this fprowt, when the berries begin to prow yellowy and they will iaft till winter be far fpent, and refrefh the eyes to lee them, and by their {harp tafte they are very good for anaufeatingand qualmifh Palate. David fpeaks of this plant, who in many places brings very apt fimilitudes to perfwade in the point of Religion, fetched handfomely from natures works. Before, faith he, your Thorns be grown, and become hard as white Thorn , the TfalsT' t nrdth all break wu, and take you away , and [hall make you melt as a
,D Snail, and an abortive child. Whereby he deferibes the factions and ff£L£ deeds of wicked men, ihewing that their Tyranny, threats, power, endeavours, and undertakings, fhall all come to nothing, and thall never do the hurt they intended,taking a comparifon from theBuck- thorn,that when it is grown up,is full of hurtful prickles, but in the fpriog it is tender, foft, tradable, and not fohurtfull. Now there are in thefe Sea-coafts, many fhrubby plants, whereof feme grow¬ ing far from the fhore, yet receive the Sea Ayre, though they be never wet with Sea-water * others are moiftned by the Sea coming in, when the Ocean over-flows, as it ufeth to do in winter, at the full or new of the Moon : hence it is that all Sell plants are of a wan colour, and hoary, and not fo beautiful! as Garden plants are, nor fo gracefull to fight s yet fome of them tranfplanted and made tame by cultivation, become more beautifull, and grow, and flou- rifh more delightfully. We fee the like in Coblcrs, Bakers, that ftand by the Oven, Colliars, Black-Smiths, Gold-Smiths, that are silders* which is performed by Quickfilver,and in thofe that forge Pewter, Brafl'e, Copper, Lead,: all thefe are difeovered by their Countenance, and have not their natural colour, but that which is accidental by reafon of the vapours and fumes that fly about them, fo that fome of them are Box-colour’d, Weefil-colour’d, wan like halfburnt Brick, brown, fmokys but fhould thefe men ufe fome other trade, and forfaking their vulgar calling, fhould live as gentlemen, they would foon look of another hue,far more come¬ ly and beautifully, and their whole body as well as their faces, would be more gracefull to look upon 5 though fome of them would allwaies carry fome marks of their old vocations, that they \ were before ufed to, and this weobferve in Country-maids, and
men that chance to rife to great fortunes, that they commonly will difeoverfomething of their former rural and fervile life.
Stahexrhstffe
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A finite from fordid Artifi¬ cers.
Some works change a mans
Levinus
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Chap. i.
Lcevinus Lemnius^ Phy Titian of Zirixge,
CONCERNING
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Natures Dignity and Excellence.
The Fourth Boof.
CHAP. I.
Of the force arid efjett of the CMoon> by whofe motion the Sea is driven , and ivhat ufeth to happen to men that are dyings or defperately fick when they are in their agony , and are beginning to dye0 by the flowing and ebbing of the Sea , and motion of the tJAloon $ whofe fortes, fuch live near the Sea> perceive more ejf equally than other men .
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Shewed before what power this Planet had, which was or- Gen.u daind to give light by night, and is nearer to us and more fa¬ miliar than the other ftars, whofe force works upon the bodies of Animals, and ftirs the humours. But fince it is wonderful!
cffe&ual not oncly in railing, and moving of Tempefts and inun- ceJbat*‘ dations of the Sea, but in caufing and tharpning difeafes, namely difeafesk the Apoplex, Lethargy, Aftonifhment, Epilepjfie,Palfey, Dropfy, flarputb, Catarhs, and flegmatique diftillations. 1 fliall fpeak a little more accurately concerning the nature of it, and the rather becaufe the Inhabitants of the Low-Countries do more ftrongly feel the force of it, by living fo near to the Sea, than others do that live farther from it ^ for thefe being fo near, and when the Moon fets in the Weft, arc fo nearly fhined upon by her, and no woods or Moun¬ tains keep herfrom them j do manifestly perceive the power of the Moon, and are more abundantly moiftned by the moift beams of it. For as Pliny faith. The Moon is a feminine, foft, and no¬ cturnal light, that moves humours, but it draws none as the Sun doth, but fills all th ings with a moift vapour, and makes them fwell, whence it is, that fuch as dwell in moift and cold countries, arc full of Flegme and excrements, and are fubjeft to coughs hoarf-
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