Chap. 20. An Expafition upon the Bookof J O B. Vert. 14. p ' Thegall ofTome creatures is poyfon, yea the molt deadly poyfon; ÁrifLtle, mlinie, and others that write the Hiftoryof animals, tell us that the gall of Serpents is full of poyfon, Felferpentum and they have exceeding copious galls ; yet there is a further la/lime maxi. elegancy in the words, fuitinga fecret innature : it wadfzveet in rré coprofi'm the month, now it isgall. Thofe meats which are fweeteft to the Plin. tafte turne molt to bitterneffe and choller in the ftomack. So there is a graduali continuance of the metaphor, fweetneflè "a dulcis turnes to bitterneffe, and not one! to bitterneffe, but to gall; f'ne facile - ly g bilem ama- and not onely to gall, hut to the gall ofAfps, which is not one- ritudnesn con- ly bitter, but poyfonous. There is a1 itternefle that hath whol- verrxntur fomnes in it, and is medicinable,'there is alto a poyfonous bitter- Gal' nef e. The wild bitter gourd put into the pot was deadly, but ofall poyfonous bitterneffes, thebitterneffe and poy ionofAfps is molt deadly. There are many remediesor antidotes againft poyfon. And there may be remedies found againft the poyfo- Adverfne vipe- nous bitings ofall Serpents, except that ofthe Alpe, which as rarum ePnniït15 the ancients affirme, killetb infoure byres, notwithftanding the f Peremediroim ufeand application of the molt fovereigne remedies. Infomuch, irl, enitur,afai- that the t iting ofthe Afpe is gone into a proverb, for An im- de una accepta. medicable evili. PE 'an. There is another confederation in the gall ofAlps that"carri- M-rfi a(pidia eth the poynt more fully ; for though that gall bedeath, and proverb,a dic- , curd?fna.OPPtt death without remedy, yet it caufeth a kinde of a pleafant tnedicabili- death; The biting of the Afpe ttupifies and then kills. The per- f"on bitten falls prefentlyinto a fleepe, which is a Mort death, and then dies which is a long fleepe. Though the perfon bites ten be in prefect danger of death, yet the paines of death are not felt. It is ioried ofCleopatra, Queen ofEgypt, thatwhen Mee faw her Husband Marks Anthony ruined and dead, having layd violent hands upon himfelfe. When (he faw all loft, the City' of`Ilexandria ( where the thought to fecure her felfe ) taken, and her power utterly broken ; the fo much difdained to be a captive, and to be brought in triumph to Room, that out ofthe greatneffe of her fpirit, the chofe to put Alps to her breath and dye ; `dhichThe did upon this natural! contidera. Alnitfis ",ena Lion, not only becaule (he knew they were prefent death, but 41:17i fomno becaufe theywould pur ?per to lealt paine, or make her altoge- in ,rOPtem fid- dler fenceleffe ofpaine indying. vxntur- T t t z Hence
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