 | George Augustus Addison - 1837 - 372 pagine
...let me cite the following passage from the diary of honest old Elias Ashmole : " March, 1681. — I hung three spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away, Deo gratias ! " Second. — " Every ass has the figure of a cross on its back ; take some of the hair which grows... | |
 | John Brand - 1842 - 312 pagine
...the " Diary of Elias Ashmole, Esq.,'' llth April, 1681, is preserved the followingcurious incident: " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir, and hung three Spiders ahout my ueck, and they drove my ague away. DeoGratias!" Ashmole was a judicial astrologer, and the... | |
 | James Logan - 1843 - 568 pagine
...and a bond was granted for its safe return. |l In the Diary of El. Ashmore, 1681, we find, "I took a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and they * Pliny, xxii. 2. t M. Latour ap. Phillip's Flora Historica. ! \\vi. I, I. 4 Ellin's Letters on English... | |
 | Thomas Joseph Pettigrew - 1844 - 194 pagine
...the ague and perform many other cures." Elias Ashmole, in his Diary, April 11, 1681, has entered, " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo Gratias !" Spiders and their webs have often been recommended for the cure of this malady. Burton gives the... | |
 | 1844 - 624 pagine
...established to admit, we presume, of any doubt. Elias Ashmole's evidence would be, alone, conclusive. " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...spiders about my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo (initias !" More pious, however, than logically satisfactory ; for the sceptical might remark, that... | |
 | 1893 - 840 pagine
...curiously well attested. Elias Ashmole in his diary for 1681 has entered the following : — I tooke this morning a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias ' A baked toad hung in a silk bag about the neck was also held in high esteem, as was a toad, cither... | |
 | John Brand, Henry Ellis - 1849 - 520 pagine
...streaked. In the Diary of Elias Ashmole, llth April, 1681, is preserved the following curious incident : " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias !" Ashniole was a judicial astrologer, and the patron of the renowned Mr. Lilly. Par nobile fratrum.... | |
 | William Sweetser - 1850 - 456 pagine
...executed criminal worn round the neck. "Elias Ashmole, in his Diary, April 11, 1681, has entered, ' I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and drove my ague away. Deo Gratias !' "f How the classical remedy for a quartan ague, of placing the fourth... | |
 | James Logan - 1851 - 564 pagine
...bond was granted for its safe return.|| In the Diary of El. Ashmore, 1681, we find, "I took a pood dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck, and they 'Pliny, xxii. 2. t M. Latourap. Phillip's Flora Historic*. t xxvi. 4, 1. 6 Ellis's Letters on English... | |
 | John Brand - 1855 - 520 pagine
...streaked. In the Diary of Elias Ashmole, llth April, 1681, is preserved the following curious incident: " I took early in the morning a good dose of elixir,...my neck, and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias !" Ashmole was a judicial astrologer, and the patron of the renowned Mr. Lilly. Par nobile fratrum.... | |
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I took, early in the morning, a good dose of elixir, and hung three spiders about my neck ; and they drove my ague away. Deo gratias. 
