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Lentils, and Rape-feed cure the fmal Pox in Chih dren j becaufethattliC Grains are like to the fpots of this Difeafe. And RhubarbjWhich is of a yellow colour, expels Choller, which is of the fame colour. In a word, thofe Plants which are Parren, or Fruit- ful, as Fc)rf /J faith, do render thofe that ufe them. Barren, or Fruitful : the Fair, makes them Fair; the Deformed, make them Deformed ; the Imper- feft, make them imperfect : fo that he concludes, with 7heophra(ius 'y Accedunt jlirfium aliquot genera de» ficientium, velfoHo^ vel rad'ice^ vet aliispurtihiis, eadem- que ratione memhrii illis nojiri corporis refpoftdentibuSy infejUy noxiaque fmt The fame he alfo affirms of living Creatures. Eadem ratione ad animalia tran^ feundoy ft aliquibus meiiirii deficijfe videmus^ eadem ment' trisnojlris adverfantur, H or which rcafon, the ea- ting of thofe C Features which have no blood, does waft ours ; and fo of all the other parts. And it is obferved that in France there are more Lepers, then in any other Kingdome^ by rcafon of the great ftore ofHogs-flerti that is eaten there : So true it is, that our bodies become like unto that, which we ufe to feed on. And for this reafon alfo is Hercuhs fa id to have been very ftrpng, becaufe he fed upon the Mar- row of Lions, the ftrongeft among Beafts.
Afirology. alfo (hews the Vertue of Refemblance, judging of the Qualities of theChild, by thofe of the Stars. For M^r; cafti ng forth a glitreritig, red light, makes the Child that is borne under its influ- ence, of a red colour alfo. Saturn^ ^ who is.
r~" of a pale, faint colour, makes him pale, and
^ ^ -wan. Jupiter^ ^ Venin^ c which caft forth
^ ^ bright, clear, and pleafantbeam^', makes the
^ ^ Child beautiful, and pleafant. The like is
^ obferved alfo in other Qualities •, fo that, if
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the Signs be high, and in their Jpogaum^ the
^ Child f fay the Arabians^fhal! be in like man-
* ^ nerofaTall and great ftacure ; if they are
* Low, he (hall be Lowland of a little Scature.
* As concerning Motion, Saturne, which hath a
* * flow and heavy one, makes the Child likewife ~"7 — heavy and Lazy : the MooHy which hath a fwift motioii, makes him light, and inconfide-
rate. You may have the fuller profecuclon of this Difcourfe, in thofe two Learned Itali- ans, CarddHy and Forta : who confidently af- tirmc,thata man may likewife forctel certain- IYj any other the like Qualities that a Child fhall be fubje^ to, by the figures of Aftromancy and Geo- mancy. Thus a man may conclude, that we (hall fse Armies Battels,and Wars break forth, after that Launces of fire, SworJs, Trumpets and Bucklers have been feen to appear in the Aire ; And chiefly, when a Comet hath appeared ; of which it is ufual- ly faid, Nuitquam impunc vifus Gmeta. And fo like- wife we may conclude,there will be great Eff^uiion of Blood, if all chefe Weccorsare Redder then Ordina- ry : or, when the Sun and Moon, in the time of an Eclipfe, feem bloody. And if they be Pale and Wan, and of a dead colour, Wf m:^y conclude there will follow great Mortality by the Peftilence, which mikes thofe, that are infefted with it, pale, wan and colon rlefs.
Obferve FjigeniHslheodidaBm^ thefeare his own words, cranllited. Now whereas he calls this an Jnchantedjione^ aiidfaics, that it was placed there by zMaghiaHj you mull note, that he there fpeakes according to thp Senfe of the Inhabitants, who knew not how to give any other account of the thing 5 as not underilanding any thing at all of the
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