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Book IV – Astrologia Munda
Section III – Chapter XIII
sores and wounds in men and women which are either very great or not well
cured; the business of fowls pruning themselves, especially if it is in the winter.
And here I would have the reader to take notice, that unless they are seen to
squeeze the small pustules, as it were, that grow on their rump, and then anoint
their feathers by slightly stroking their bills thereon, it is no certain sign of rain;
for in their time of moulting they will prune and peck their feathers all day
long; but in this pustule, as I may call it for the resemblance it has therewith,
there is a certain unctuous matter or oily substance wherewith they smooth their
feathers and anoint them to be better to keep out the wet, and this you may
perceive to be true by taking a feather and pulling it asunder with your fingers
gently and you will soon see how the beards on the edges thereof will stick
together.
I might here instance many more such like ordinary signs of the mutations of
the air, but since I desire not to be tedious and to the judicious and searchers of
nature, many such like testimonies will be frequently offered to their
considerations. I shall here desist, deriding such as shall deny by their
ignorance the admirable and powerful virtues of the heavens, stars and celestial
planets; being convinced even by these brute creatures, fowls, creeping things,
and the very stones wherefore such must needs be concluded worse, or at best,
no better than stocks, dolts or asses.
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