a phantasm flying in the air in the likeness of a goat. I have
heard" (saith he) "divers confess, that they have been so carried on a
goat's back to their sweethearts, many miles in a night." Others are of
opinion that these feats, which most suppose to be done by charms and
philters, are merely effected by natural causes, as by man's blood
chemically prepared, which much avails, saith Ernestus Burgravius, _in
Lucerna vitae et mortis Indice, ad amorem conciliandum et odium_, (so
huntsmen make their dogs love them, and farmers their pullen,) 'tis an
excellent philter, as he holds, _sed vulgo prodere grande nefas_, but not
fit to be made common: and so be _Mala insana_, mandrake roots, mandrake
[5233]apples, precious stones, dead men's clothes, candles, _mala Bacchica,
panis porcinus, Hyppomanes_, a certain hair in a [5234]wolf's tail, &c., of
which Rhasis, Dioscorides, Porta, Wecker, Rubeus, Mizaldus, Albertus,
treat: a swallow's heart, dust of a dove's heart, _multum valent linguae
viperarum, cerebella asinorum, tela equina, palliola quibus infantes
obvoluti nascuntur, funis strangulati hominis, lapis de nido Aquilae_, &c.
See more in Sckenkius _observat. medicinal, lib. 4._ &c., which are as
forcible and of as much virtue as that fountain Salmacis in [5235]
Vitruvius, Ovid, Strabo, that made all such mad for love that drank of it,
or that hot bath at [5236]Aix in Germany, wherein Cupid once dipped his
arrows, which ever since hath a peculiar virtue to make them lovers all
that wash in it. But hear the poet's own description of it,

[5237] "Unde hic fervor aquis terra erumpentibus uda?
Tela olim hic ludens ignea tinxit amor;
Et gaudens stridore novo, fervete perennes
Inquit, et haec pharetrae sint monumenta meae.
Ex illo fervet, rarusque hic mergitur hospes,
Cui non titillet pectora blandus amor."

These above-named remedies have happily as much power as that bath of Aix,
or Venus' enchanted girdle, in which, saith Natales Comes, "Love toys and
dalliance, pleasantness, sweetness, persuasions, subtleties, gentle
speeches, and all witchcraft to enforce love, was contained." Read more of
these in Agrippa _de occult. Philos. lib. 1. cap. 50. et 45._ _Malleus
malefic. part. 1. quaest. 7._ Delrio _tom. 2. quest. 3. lib. 3._ Wierus,
Pomponatis, _cap. 8. de incantat._ Ficinus, _lib. 13. Theol. Plat._
Calcagninus, &c.

MEMB. III.
_Symptoms or signs of Love Melancholy, in Body,