_, a
shrew to my wife tormented my mind above measure, and beyond the rest. So
shalt thou be compelled to complain, and to cry out at last, with
[5816]Phoroneus the lawyer, "How happy had I been, if I had wanted a wife!"
If this which I have said will not suffice, see more in Lemnius _lib. 4.
cap. 13. de occult. nat. mir._ Espensaeus _de continentia, lib. 6. cap. 8._
Kornman _de virginitate_, Platina _in Amor. dial. Practica artis amandi_,
Barbarus _de re uxoria_, Arnisaeus _in polit. cap. 3._ and him that is
_instar omnium_, Nevisanus the lawyer, _Sylva nuptial_, almost in every
page.

SUBSECT. IV.--_Philters, Magical and Poetical Cures_.

Where persuasions and other remedies will not take place, many fly to
unlawful means, philters, amulets, magic spells, ligatures, characters,
charms, which as a wound with the spear of Achilles, if so made and caused,
must so be cured. If forced by spells and philters, saith Paracelsus, it
must be eased by characters, _Mag. lib. 2. cap 28._ and by incantations.
Fernelius _Path. lib. 6. cap. 13._ [5817]Skenkius _lib. 4. observ. med_.
hath some examples of such as have been so magically caused, and magically
cured, and by witchcraft: so saith Baptista Codronchus, _lib. 3. cap. 9. de
mor. ven._ _Malleus malef. cap. 6._ 'Tis not permitted to be done, I
confess; yet often attempted: see more in Wierus _lib. 3. cap. 18. de
praestig. de remediis per philtra._ Delrio _tom. 2. lib. 2. quaest. 3.
sect. 3. disquisit. magic_. Cardan _lib. 16. cap. 90._ reckons up many
magnetical medicines, as to piss through a ring, &c. Mizaldus _cent. 3.
30_, Baptista Porta, Jason Pratensis, Lobelius _pag. 87_, Matthiolus, &c.,
prescribe many absurd remedies. Radix mandragora ebibitae, Annuli ex
ungulis Asini, Stercus amatae sub cervical positum, illa nesciente, &c.,
quum odorem foeditatis sentit, amor solvitur. Noctuae ocum abstemios facit
comestum, ex consilio Jarthae Indorum gymnosophistae apud Philostratum
_lib. 3._ Sanguis amasiae, ebibitus omnem amoris sensum tollit: Faustinam
Marci Aurelii uxorem, gladiatoris amore captam, ita penitus consilio
Chaldaeorum liberatam, refert Julius Capitolinus. Some of our astrologers
will effect as much by characteristical images, _ex sigillis Hermetis,
Salomonis, Chaelis, &c. mulieris imago habentis crines sparsos_, &c. Our
old poets and fantastical writers have many fabulous remedies for such as
are lovesick, as that of Protesilaus' tomb in Philostratus, in his dialog