—S.K. Heninger, Jr., A Handbook of Renaissance
                                    Meteorology, 1960 (spellings modernized)
                                    
THUNDER

It breaks through cloud. Thunder with his moving stirs
The brain, and fears the wit, and distroubles & stirs
And corrupts wine in tuns. And if it come
In breeding time of fowls, it grieves their eggs.

THUNDER AND LIGHTNING

The stars fall out of the firmament, and by the fall,
Both thunder and lightning are caused: for the lightning
Is nothing else but the shining of the star that falls,
Which falling into a watery cloud, and being
Quenched in it, causes great thunder.
(Even as hot iron makes a noise
If it be cast into cold water.)

LIGHTNING

This burns a man inward, and consumes the body
To ashes, without harming the garments; it stays
The youngling in the womb, without harm to the mother;
It consumes money, the purses remaining whole;
It harms the hand the glove not perished.