Things under Mercury are these;
amongst Elements, Water, although it moves
all things indistinctly;
amongst humors, those especially which are mixed,
as also the Animall spirit; amongst tasts those that are various, strange, and mixed:
Amongst Metals,
Quick-silver, Tin, the Slver Marcasite;
amongst stones, the Emrald, Achates, red Marble, Topaze,
and those which are of divers colours, and various
figures naturally, & those that are artificiall, as
glass, & those which have a colour mixed with yellow, and green.
Amongst
Plants and Trees,
the Hazle, Five-leaved-grass, the Hearb Mercury, Fumitary, Pimpernell,
Marjoram, Parsly, and such as have shorter and less leaves,
being compounded of mixed natures, and divers colours.
Amonst
Animals, also, that are of quick sence,
ingenious, strong, inconstant, swift, and such as become easily
acquainted with men, as Dogs, Apes, Foxes, Weesels, the Hart, and Mule;
and all Animals that are of both sexes, and those which can change
their Sex, as the Hare, Civet-Cat, and such like.
Amongst birds,
those which are naturally witty, melodious, and inconstant, as the Linet,
Nightingale, Blackbird, Thrush, Lark, the Gnat-sapper,
the bird Calandra, the Parret, the Pie, the Bird Ibis, the bird
Porphyrio, the black Betle with one horn.
And amongst fish,
the fish called Trochius, which goes into himself,
also Pourcontrell for deceitfulness, and changeableness,
and the Fork fish for its industry; the Mullet also that
shakes off the bait on the hook with his taile.
Mercury with Gemini rules Hircania, Armenia, Mantiana,
Cyrenaica, Marmarica, and the Lower Egypt; but with Virgo, Greece, Achaia,
Creta, Babylon, Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Ela, whence they of that place are in
Scripture called Elamites.
For Mercury take mastic, frankincense, cloves and the
herb cinquefoil, and the stone achates, and incorporate them all with the brain of
a fox or a weasel and the blood of a pie...
To Mercury, all the peels of wood and fruit, as cinnamon,
lignum-cassia, mace, citron peel, and bayberries, and whatever seeds are odoriferous...
