Human Nature Is Fond Of Novelty.

Many Dishes Bring Many Diseases.

The Feasant Hens Of Colchis, Which Have Two Ears As It Were Consisting Of Feathers, Which They Will Set Up And Lay Down As They List.

Men Are Most Apt To Believe What They Least Understand; And Through The Lust Of Human Wit Obscure Things Are More Easily Credited.

As In Our Lives So Also In Our Studies, It Is Most Becoming And Most Wise, So To Temper Gravity With Cheerfulness, That The Former May Not Imbue Our Minds With Melancholy, Nor The Latter Degenerate Into Licentiousness.

Contact With [menstrual Blood] Turns New Wine Sour, Crops Touched By It Become Barren, Grafts Die, Seed In Gardens Are Dried Up, The Fruit Of Trees Fall Off, The Edge Of Steel And The Gleam Of Ivory Are Dulled, Hives Of Bees Die, Even Bronze And Iron Are At Once Seized By Rust, And A Horrible Smell Fills The Air; To Taste It Drives Dogs Mad And Infects Their Bites With An Incurable Poison.