Things are Martiall,
amongst Elements, Fire, together with all adust,
and sharp things: Amongst humours, Choller ;
also bitter tasts, tart, and burning the tongue, and causing tears:
Amongst Metals,
Iron, and red Brass; and all fiery, red, and
sulphureous things: Amongst Stones the Diamond, Loadstone,
the Blood-stone, the Jasper, the stone that consists
of divers kinds, and the Amethist.
Amongst
Plants and Trees, Hellebor, Garlick,
Euphorbium, Cartabana, Armoniack,
Radish, the Laurell, Wolfs-bane, Scammony, and all such as
are poysonous, by reason of too much heat, and those which
are beset round about with prickles, or by touching the skin, burn it,
prick it, or make it swell, as Cardis, the Nettle, Crow-foot,
Aand such as being eaten
cause tears, as Onyons,
Ascolonia, Leeks, Mustardseed, and all thorny Trees,
and the Dog-tree, which is dedicated to Mars.
And all such Animals
as are warlike, ravenous, bold, and of clear fancy,
as the Horse, Mule, Goat, Kid, Wolf, Libard,
the wild Ass; Serpents also, and Dragons full of displeasure
and poyson; also all such as are offensive to men,
as Gnats, Flies, Baboon, by reason of his anger.
All such birds,
that are ravenous, devour flesh, break bones, as the Eagle,
the Faulcon, the Hawk, the Vultur; and those
which are called the fatall Birds, as the Horn-Owl, the Scrich-Owl,
Castrels, Kites, and such as are hungry, and
ravenous, and such as make a noise in their swallowing,
as Crows, Daws, the Pie, which above all the rest is dedicated to Mars.
And amongst fishes,
the Pike, the Barbell, the Fork-fish, the Fish that hath horns like a Ram,
the Sturgeon, the Glacus, all which are great devourers, and ravenous.
Mars with Aries governs Brittany, France, Germany,
Bastarnia, the lower parts of Syria, Idumea and Judea; with Scorpio he rules
Syria, Comagena, Cappadocia, Metagonium, Mauritania and Getulia
For Mars take euphorbium, bdellium, gum armoniac,
the roots of both hellebores, the loadstone and a little sulfure, and incorporate
them all with the brain of a hart, the blood of a man and the blood of a black
cat....
To Mars, all odoriferous woods, as sanders, cypress,
lignum balsam, and lignum aloes...
To Mars, fiery and bloody places, furnacnes, bakehouses,
shambles, places of execution and and places where there have been great battles
fought and slaughters made and the like.