the end to reid himselfe of any blood already poisoned and infected, lest by that circulation that the blood makes thorow al the body of a man once of the 24 howers the blood infected sould communicate itselfe to much.  Also he sayd that he had rather bein stung in the leg, the thigh, or many other parts of the body then the finger, by reason of the great abondance of nerves their, and the sympathy the rest of the body keips wt them, which renders the cure more difficile.

    [168] Shelves.

    [169] Riving, tearing.

    [170] Mistake for [Greek:  hodunaen].  The etymology is fanciful and
        incorrect.

    [171] Eel.

    [172] Squeezing.

    [173] Livid.

This charlatan seimed to be very weill experimented.  He had bein at Rome, which voyage is nothing in France, and thorow the best of France.  The stone thats to be found in the head of the hie[174] toad is very medicinal and of great use their.  They call a toad grappeau; a frog grenouille.

    [174] i.e. he.

The papists looks very much on the 7 sone for the curing of the cruels;[175] severall of the protestants look on it as superstition.  They come out of the fardest nooks of Germany, as also out of Spain itselfe, to the King of France to be cured of this:  who touches wt thir wordes, which our King aequivalently uses, tho he gives no peice of Gold as our King does, c’est le roy qui vous touche, c’est Dieu qui vous guerisse.  He hath a set tyme of the year for the doing of it.  The day before he prepares himself by fasting and praying that his touche may be the more effectuall.  The French could give me no reason of it but lookt on it as a gift of God.

    [175] Cruels, scrofula, king’s evil.  For the healing powers of the
        seventh son, compare Chambers’s Book of Days, vol. i. p. 167;
        Notes and Queries, June 12, 1852.

We can not forget a witty answer of a young English nobleman who was going to travel thorow France and Italie, whom his friends feared exceedingly that he would change his Religion, because he mocked at Religion.  They thought that King James admonition to him might do much to keip him constant, wheiron they prayed the King to speak to him.  Yes I shall do that, quoth he.  When he came to take his leave of the King, King James began to admonish him that he would not change his Religion, for amongs many other inconveniences he would so render himselfe incapable of serving his King and his country, and of bearing any office theirin.  He quickly replied, I wonder of your Majesty who is so wise a man that ye sould speak so; for ther is no a man in all France or Italy that wil change wt me tho I would give him a 100,000 livres aboot.[176] The King was wery weill satisfied wt this, telling his freinds that he was not feared he would change, but that he saw he would bring back all the Religion he carried afield wt him.