bout or given to drink, [4152]hath the same properties, or not much
unlike.

Levinus Lemnius, _Institui. ad vit. cap. 58._ amongst other jewels, makes
mention of two more notable; carbuncle and coral, [4153]"which drive away
childish fears, devils, overcome sorrow, and hung about the neck repress
troublesome dreams," which properties almost Cardan gives to that
green-coloured [4154]emmetris if it be carried about, or worn in a ring;
Rueus to the diamond.

Nicholas Cabeus, a Jesuit of Ferrara, in the first book of his Magnetical
Philosophy, _cap. 3._ speaking of the virtues of a loadstone, recites many
several opinions; some say that if it be taken in parcels inward, _si quis
per frustra voret, juventutem restituet_, it will, like viper's wine,
restore one to his youth; and yet if carried about them, others will have
it to cause melancholy; let experience determine.

Mercurialis admires the emerald for its virtues in pacifying all affections
of the mind; others the sapphire, which is "the [4155]fairest of all
precious stones, of sky colour, and a great enemy to black choler, frees
the mind, mends manners," &c. Jacobus de Dondis, in his catalogue of
simples, hath ambergris, _os in corde cervi_, [4156]the bone in a stag's
heart, a monocerot's horn, bezoar's stone [4157](of which elsewhere), it is
found in the belly of a little beast in the East Indies, brought into
Europe by Hollanders, and our countrymen merchants. Renodeus, _cap. 22.
lib. 3. de ment. med_. saith he saw two of these beasts alive, in the
castle of the Lord of Vitry at Coubert.

Lapis lazuli and armenus, because they purge, shall be mentioned in their
place.

Of the rest in brief thus much I will add out of Cardan, Renodeus, _cap.
23. lib. 3._ Rondoletius, _lib. 1. de Testat. c. 15. &c._ [4158]"That
almost all jewels and precious stones have excellent virtues" to pacify the
affections of the mind, for which cause rich men so much covet to have
them: [4159]"and those smaller unions which are found in shells amongst the
Persians and Indians, by the consent of all writers, are very cordial, and
most part avail to the exhilaration of the heart."

_Minerals._] Most men say as much of gold and some other minerals, as these
have done of precious stones. Erastus still maintains the opposite part.
_Disput. in Paracelsum. cap. 4. fol. 196._ he confesseth of gold, [4160]
"that it makes the heart merry, but in no other sense but as it is in a
miser's chest:" _at