This drink is not only good for the sick, but also for the whole (though in a smaller quantity) because that it wonderfully cleanseth the whole body, and you need not fear the least hurt either in young or old, sick or healthy. And let no man stumble at it, that many ignorant men do defame Antimony and hold it to be poyson, and forbid it to be used; for if they knew it well, they would not do so; but because such men know no more, than what they get by reading, or by hear-say, they pronounce a false sentence; and it might be replyed unto them, as _Apelles_ did to the Shooe-maker; _Ne sutor ultra crepidam_: but what what shall we say? _Non omnis fert omnia tellus._ When an Ass after his death doth rot, out of the carcass groweth Beetles, which can fly higher than the Ass from whence they came; In the like manner we wish it may fare with the haters of royal Antimony, _viz._ that their posterity may get seeing eyes, and what they know not, they may forbear to despise and scoff at. I must confess, that if Antimony be not well prepared, and besides, be indiscreetly used by the unskilful, that it may prejudice a man in his health, which even the vegetables also may do. But to reject it by reason of the abuse, would be a very unwise act: If perchance a child should get into his hand a sharp-edged knife, and hurt himself or others, because it doth not understand how to use a knife, should therefore the use of a knife be rejected and forbidden to those that are grown up and know how to use it? Good sharp tools make a good workman; so good quick working and powerful medicines make a good physitian; and the sharper the tool is, the sooner a stone-carver or other craftsman may spoyl his work by one cut which he doth amiss: which also must be understood of powerful medicines, for if they be used pertinently, in a short time more good may be done with them, than with weak medicaments in a long time. Now as a sharp tool is not to be handled but by a good workman, so likewise a powerful medicine ought to be managed by an understanding and conscientious physitian, who according to the condition of the person, and the disease, knows to increase or abate the strength of the medicine, and not by such a one, as doth minister it ignorantly without making any difference at all.