2. And that the election of fit times according to the Configuration of the Stars and Planets, is of great efficacy and virtue, is sufficiently known to Husbandmen and Sailers, and of no small power both in respect of natural and artificial things, as we shall shew in this instance. _Lazarus Riverius_ who was Counsellor and Physician to the French King, a person of extraordinary learning and experience in the Medical profession, both in the Galenical and Chymical way, doth give us this relation saying: “I have not seldom experienced, and I have many witnesses of this thing, that Peony gathered under its proper Constellation, to wit, the Moon inclining (_inclinante_) being in _Aries_, doth loose the _Epilepsie_, by application alone: for the middle and chief root divided by the greater Longitude, I have (he saith) compassed about the neck and the armes of a certain Virgin in the Hospital, of eighteen years of age, who had been afflicted with this Disease from her childhood, and had the _Paroxysmes_ every day; but from that day seemed altogether to be cured. From whence it is manifest how greatly the observation of the Stars is to be esteemed of in the Art of Medicine.” Agreeable unto which is the judgment of that Industrious person _Galen_, who affirmeth that Peony by appension doth cure the _Epilepsie_, though he declare not the fit time for its collection. From whence it is most clear that the careful and precise observation of the Heavenly influences is most necessary to a Physician, and to all others that would produce strange and desired effects. Therefore doth learned _Schroderus_ tell us this concerning the power and efficacy of those influences, saying: “The influences of the Stars are _effluvia_, or Steams endowed with peculiar faculties, by which they make strong (if they be in their strength and vigour) things that are familiar to them, and do prosper and promote their virtues; but on the contrary they debilitate, hinder and make worse things that are not agreeable to them.” And this is that which _Moses_ fully mentioneth in these words, as they are fitly rendred by _Arias Montanus_. _Et ad_ Joseph _dixit, Benedicta Domini terra ejus, de delicia Cœlorum, de rore, & de voragine cubante deorsum: & de delicia proventuum Solis, & de delicia ejectionis lunarum_. Which our Translation gives thus: _And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath; And for the precious fruits brought forth by the Sun, and for the precious things put forth by the Moon_. The full evidence of the truth of these influences of the Stars, and necessity and utility for due and proper seasons for the collection of Flowers, Fruits, Roots and Plants, may be seen in that learned piece that _Bartholomæus Carichterus_ Chief Physician to _Maximilian_ the Second, writ and dedicated to his Master in the German Tongue. As also, what is written in the same Language by those learned