10. Some things may be doubted in the species of the holy Ointment and Perfume. With Amber, Musk and Civet we meet not in the Scripture, nor any Odours from Animals; except we take the Onycha of that Perfume for the Covercle of a Shell-fish called _Unguis Odoratus_, or _Blatta Byzantina_, which _Dioscorides_ affirmeth to be taken from a Shell-fish of the Indian Lakes, which feeding upon the Aromatical Plants is gathered when the Lakes are drie. But whether that which we now call _Blatta Byzantina_, or _Unguis Odoratus_, be the same with that odorate one of Antiquity, great doubt may be made; since _Dioscorides_ saith it smelled like _Castoreum_, and that which we now have is of an ungratefull odour. No little doubt may be also made of Galbanum prescribed in the same Perfume, if we take it for Galbanum which is of common use among us, approaching the evil scent of _Assa Fœtida_; and not rather for Galbanum of good odour, as the adjoining words declare, and the original _Chelbena_ will bear; which implies a fat or resinous substance, that which is commonly known among us being properly a gummous body and dissoluble also in Water. The holy Ointment of Stacte or pure Myrrh, distilling from the Plant without expression or firing, of Cinnamon, Cassia and Calamus, containeth less questionable species, if the Cinnamon of the Ancients were the same with ours, or managed after the same manner. For thereof _Dioscorides_ made his noble Unguent. And Cinnamon was so highly valued by Princes, that _Cleopatra_ carried it unto her Sepulchre with her Jewels; which was also kept in wooden Boxes among the rarities of Kings: and was of such a lasting nature, that at his composing of Treacle for the Emperor _Severus_, _Galen_ made use of some which had been laid up by _Adrianus_. [Sidenote: _Husks eaten by the Prodigal._ Luke 15. 16.]