Mediæval Lore from Bartholomaeus AnglicusA. Moring, 1905 - 195 pages |
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Mediæval Lore from Bartholomaeus Anglicus Bartholomaeus (Anglicus),Robert Steele Affichage du livre entier - 1905 |
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adder Albertus Magnus Alchemy anon Arab Aristotle arteries Avicenna Bartholomew beareth beasts bird blood body brimstone called CHALCIDIUS circ cockatrice colour cometh corrupt divers doth dragon draweth dread earth eateth electrum elephant Ethiopia eyen fair falleth feathers fire fish fleeth flesh fowls gendered giveth goeth gold grieveth hath that name head heart heat herbs Hexameron hight hounds hunter iron kind king land leaveth leprosy limp lambskin lion liver lord loveth maketh manner meat medicine MEDIEVAL medlied metals Middle Ages mother moving nesh nigh noble Paris passeth peril Physiologus planets Pliny Pliny saith prey putteth Quarter bound vellum quicksilver reseth Richard de Bury Scythia seeketh seeth serpents setteth shapen sight silver skin slayeth smell smiteth spirit stone substance subtle Syriac therein thereof therewith things tofore travail tree turneth unneth veins venomous virtue voice waxeth whelps wise wonder wonderly wood Wynkyn de Worde
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Page 80 - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Page 67 - ... hound, or some other venomous beast: sometime of melancholy meats, and sometime of drink of strong wine. And as the causes be diverse, the tokens and signs be diverse. For some cry and leap and hurt and wound themselves and other men, and darken and hide themselves in privy and secret places. The medicine of them is, that they be bound, that they hurt not themselves and other men. And namely, such shall be refreshed, and comforted, and withdrawn from cause and matter of dread and busy thoughts....
Page 4 - Talking of stones, stars, plants, of fishes, flies, Playing with words and idle similes...
Page 132 - And he wondereth at the fairnesse of his fethers, and areareth them up as it were a circle about his head, and then he looketh to his feet, and seeth the foulenesse of his feet, and lyke as he wer ashamed he leteth his fethers fall sodeinlye : and all the taile downward, as though he tooke no heed of the fairnesse of his fethers : and he hath an horrible voice.
Page 52 - They desire all things that they see, and pray and ask with voice and with hand. They love talking and counsel of such children as they be, and void company of old men. They keep no counsel, but they tell all that they hear or see. Suddenly they laugh, and suddenly they weep. Always they cry, jangle, and jape ; that unneth they be still while they sleep. When they be washed of filth, anon they defile themselves again. When their mother washeth and combeth them, they kick and sprawl, and put with...
Page 150 - The cause why the dragon desireth his blood, is coldness of the elephant's blood, by the which the dragon desireth to cool himself. Jerome saith, that the dragon is a full thirsty beast, insomuch that...
Page 40 - ... things than use of gold : though covetous men love more gold than iron. Without iron the commonalty be not sure against enemies, without dread of iron the common right is not governed ; with iron innocent men are defended : and foolhardiness of wicked men is chastised with dread of iron. And well nigh no handiwork is wrought without iron : no field is eared without iron, neither tilling craft used, nor building builded without iron.
Page 75 - The spittle of a man fasting hath a manner strength of privy infection. For it grieveth and hurteth the blood of a beast, if it come into a bleeding wound, and is medlied with the blood. And that, peradventure, is, as saith Avicenna, by reason of rawness. For raw...
Page 87 - ... help of England. England is full of mirth and of game, and men oft times able to mirth and game, free men of heart and with tongue, but the hand is more better and more free than the tongue.
Page 131 - And the serpent hateth kindly [;.<?., by nature] this bird ; wherefore when the mother passeth out of the nest to get meat, the serpent climbeth on the tree, and stingeth and infecteth the birds ; and when the mother cometh again, she maketh sorrow three days for her birds. Then she smiteth herself in the breast, and springeth blood upon them, and reareth them from death to life...